François-Marie Arouet
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) was represented at Madame Tussaud's, a waxworks museum that Wilford Woodruff visited on 24 Jun. 1845 in London, Middlesex, England.
Footnotes
François Marie Arouet (MZ4W-264), “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 24 Apr. 2023). François Marie Arouet, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/francois-marie-arouet, accessed 24 Apr. 2023). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, “Arouet, François-Marie [known as Voltaire],” Oxford DNB (https://www.oxforddnb.com, accessed 24 Apr. 2023).
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