The French monuments service opens Ferney as a national historic monument visit
The Centre des monuments nationaux presents the Château de Voltaire as a public monument (major 1990s–2000s restoration cluster). In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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The Centre des monuments nationaux presents the Château de Voltaire as a public monument (major 1990s–2000s restoration cluster). Voltaire is the former seigneur, not the conservator.
Context
A national monument can teach contradiction: workshops, seigneurie, campaigns. Ticket economies are not a rebate to Surinam.
Voltaire is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
A CMN site is not a 1759 notarial act.
A CMN site is not a 1759 notarial act.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Voltaire
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.16 · verified
Dated act under Voltaire as author, investor, or campaigner. Printers, kings, and lawyers share labour.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactThe French monuments service opens Ferney as a national historic monument visit
- strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 1 January 1999 · verified
A CMN site is not a 1759 notarial act.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.11 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.11 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Institut et Musée Voltaire — GenevaBibliothèque de Genève · High credibility · verified
- 2.Château de Voltaire à Ferney — Centre des monuments nationauxCentre des monuments nationaux · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorVoltaire
- contributed toFactThe French monuments service opens Ferney as a national historic monument visit
- strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). The French monuments service opens Ferney as a national historic monument visit. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/vo-cmn-ferney-museum
https://factrail.ai/facts/vo-cmn-ferney-museum
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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