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What businesses did Voltaire establish at Ferney?

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Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background. — Voltaire *Voltaire*, plaster sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.

At his estate in Ferney, Voltaire established a stocking factory and watchworks. He initiated these businesses to provide economic support to the local workers, known as natifs, who lacked civil rights in Geneva and whom he supported in local political matters.1