Ferney-Voltaire is a French municipality located in the department of Ain. The city is in the border with Switzerland and comprises of the agglomeration of Ginebra.
House of Voltaire in FerneyFerney has taken the name from Ferney-Voltaire in tribute to Voltaire, who resided there as of 1755. To its arrival, the town as soon as it counted a hundred of inhabitants. Voltaire made construct to numerous houses, inviting artists so that they settled. We did not exaggerate if we say that without Voltaire, Ferney had continued being a pueblecito at the present time.
Ferney is visited nowadays by its castle of Voltaire, acquired by France in 1998.
The corner has 8 municipalities and 28,000 inhabitants.
We must to Fréderic Lenormand a novel having to Ferney of scenery, founded on an historical anecdote. Voltaire welcomes a descendant of Pierre Corneille sunk in the misery and she educates it according to its philosophical principles, with the intention to make of her a true daughter of the lights.