A revolution in posterity took place in the eighteenth century. In Ferney, the aging Voltaire contributed to presenting new paradigms of the engaged intellectual, the place of memory, and the mobile work. The result was a global upheaval in the economy of grandeur, heroism, and the very notion of life.
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