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The busts of the celebrated philosophers François-Marie Arouet Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, rendered in ivory, have been applied to the lid of a papier-mâché box tinted to resemble maple wood.A wooden box in the British Museum with similar portraits is said to commemorate the deaths of the two men, both of whom died in 1778.
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