Voitaire was now eighty three , and a longing came over him to see Paris before he died . the doctor advised him not to undertake so arduous a trip; but "If I want commit a folly , he answer, "Nothing will prevent me ; he had live so long, and worked so hard, that perhaps he felt he had a write to die in his on way, and in that electric Paris from which he had been so long exiled. After a long journey, when his coach entered the capital his bones hardly held together. Against the advice of the physicians again, the old man of letters spent very busy days in Paris. He knew that he was exhausted now; that he had used to the full that wild and marvelous energy which nature had given to him perhaps more than any other man before him. But he could not escape death the end came on May 30, 1778Voltaire was refused Christian burial in Paris; but his friends got him out of the city by pretending that he was alive. At Sculleries they found a priest who understood that rules were not made for geniuses. The body was buried in holy ground. In 1791 the National Assembly of the triumphant Revolution forced Louis XVI to recall Voltaire's remains to the Pantheon. The ashes of Voltaire were escorted through Paris by a procession. On his tombstone three words were necessary: HERE LIES VOLTAIRE>

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