SKELETON BURIED IN LIME
IS IT THE REMAINS OF VOLTAIRE? By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Oct. 111. The Paris correspondent of The Times states that the discovery of a skeleton buried in lime at Scellieries, the site of a former abbey, has caused a suggestion that it may be that of Voltaire, hurriedly buried by his nephew, the Abbe Gaultier, fearing the bishop would forbid hie interment in consecrated ground because he died unshriven. The National Assembly in 3791 ordered his body to be transferred to the Pantheon, but the collin was found to be empty in 18<S4, when it was opened to restore the heart, which had been preserved in a silver casket. The belief that the skeleton is that of Voltaire is based on the contour of the skull, especially the pointed jaw.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1927, Page 11
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