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Voltaire Home - Geneva
Voltaire's home is on Rue des Délices in Geneva, Switzerland. He lived at this mansion, Les Délices, from 1755 to 1760. In 1754 he was banned by Louis XV from returning to Paris, mainly due to his critical writings against both church and state. He found himself in Geneva and with the aid of Theodore Tronchin, the prominent physician, he was able to obtain the property which he would call home for the next five years. While living here he would work on Orphan of China, Poem on the Lisbon Disaster, and, most famously, Candide. In 1860 he moved for the last time to property he had acquired in Ferney, just across the Swiss border, in France. He held onto the Geneva property until 1765, when he sold it to the Tronchin family, who would own it until 1840, when it was broken up and sold to various persons. In 1929 the mansion was saved from the wrecking ball and purchased by the city. In 1954 it was opened as the Institut et Musée Voltaire.
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