_Voltaire, where situated_ (Vol. iii, pp. 329.433.).--The inquiry,
"Where is Voltaire situated?" was answered in a late number, and
reference made to the _Essays of an Octogenarian_, a privately-printed
work, and therefore not generally accessible; but the subject will be
equally found elucidated in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for July, 1846,
p. 25. No such place ever existed, as there made clear; for it is the
simple anagram of his patronymic, Arouet l j (_le jeune_), framed by
himself though by Condorcet and other biographers, ignorant of the fact,
supposed to be a landed property. Voltaire loved not his paternal name,
as will be there found, and gladly changed it. The article embraces
various particulars of Voltaire's life, in refutation of Lord Brougham's
errors; some of them strange enough, and not inconsiderable in number,
so as to excite surprise in so accomplished a person.