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Where was Voltaire buried after his death?

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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.

Following his death on May 30, 1778, Voltaire’s body was initially transported to the Abbey of Scellières, where he received a Christian burial. During the French Revolution, his remains were transferred to the Panthéon in Paris in July 1791, where they remain today as a repository for great French citizens.12