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They went through Dante's house and discussed the Inferno. Then one of the women insisted on visiting Elizabeth Barrett Browning's grave, which was not on the official agenda at all. In Ferney, on the French-Swiss border, they saw Voltaire's chateau and talked about Candide. In Augsburg, a Lutheran pastor who spoke no English gave them a lecture on the Reformation, and they tried but failed to get into the monastery where Luther once lived. Next on the list was Faust, but since Weimar is behind the Iron Curtain, they had to settle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Quest | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...paper doll. So do most of Feuchtwanger's supporting players: the pretty Hapsburg queen, Marie Antoinette, with her "Lilac Coterie" of expensive courtiers; the fat and timorous king, who hated rebels on principle; and various noblemen, courtesans, and intriguers of Versailles. The dying Voltaire comes up from Ferney to see his play, Irene, and to give Feuchtwanger a crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surefire | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...unmentionable--and she refuses to try that. She has a pretty hard time because of all the men who appreciate her for the wrong reasons, but manages to stand them off, starving all the while. In desperation she poses as the daughter of an old flame of Jacques Ferney, eminent historian, who was young once, too. She gets away with it for a while, and the ensuing mess, complicated as it is by Ferney's genuine wife and an anxious young man named Pierre, proves to be excellent entertainment. There is a recurrent note having to do with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/16/1940 | See Source »

...interesting feature of the exhibition is an original pen and ink sketch of Voltaire, made at Ferney about 1767 by the Swiss printer Huber. There are also two views of Ferney whcih were formerly the personal property of Wagniere, Voltaire's private secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOLTAIRE COLLECTION NOW ON DISPLAY IN TREASURE ROOM | 3/18/1924 | See Source »

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