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# Voltaire at 10 Maiden Lane Standing at this corner of Covent Garden in 1727, the exiled French philosopher Voltaire found himself in the beating heart of London's intellectual ferment—a refuge that would reshape his thinking and his work. During his eighteen-month residence at this modest address...

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10 Maiden Lane WC2

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Voltaire 1694-1778 French philosopher and satirist lodged in a house on this site 1727-1728