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He had left Ferney (such theurgency of Niece Denis and her unappeasable desire for a sight of Parisagain) February 5th; arrived in Paris February 10th; ventured out to seehis poor last Tragedy, not till the sixth night of it, March 30th; wasbeshouted, crowned, raised to the immortal gods by a repentant Parisworld: "Greatest of men, --You were not a miscreant and malefactor, then:on the contrary, you were a spiritual Hercules, a heroic Son of Light;Slayer of the Nightmare Monsters, and foul Drag...ons and Devils that werepreying on us: to you shall not we now say, Long life, with all ourthroats and all our hearts, "--and so quench you at last! Which theymanaged to do, poor repentant souls. The tottering wayworn Voltaire, over-agitated in this way, took to bed; never rose again; and on thatday two months was dead. [In DUVERNET, and still better in LONGCHAMP ETWAGNIERE, ample account of these interesting occurrences. ] His light alldone; to King Friedrich, or to any of us, no flash of radiancy from himany more forever.
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