I'm not sure if it's worth such an expensive subscription, but it does have a really intuitive search system. I can easily find every instance of Voltaire complaining about "Luc" to a wide range of correspondents, especially during the Seven Years War ;)
Ooh, that's encouraging. I wouldn't pay for an year's subscription, but one or two months might be worth it, especially when I'm back at work.
Reminder for cahn in case it's useful: Luc is Voltaire's monkey and therefore also what he calls Fritz when he's annoyed at him (and vice versa, calls Luc Frédéric II).
And yeah, he was super annoyed at Fritz during the Seven Years' War, so annoyed that he had to write to him ALL THE TIME, so Fritz could bitch to Catt and Mitchell and sundry about how Voltaire was just the absolute scum of the earth, while devouring the letters with his eyes and exclaiming, "He hasn't forgotten me!" :P
You know. Just another day on board the Fritz/Voltaire ship.
Yes! On the 13th of October 1750, Voltaire sent the following letter (there is a French original, and English translation which I will quote, which is slightly different from your version):
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOREVER.
The University of Oxford.
Fancy! I'll keep that in mind when using WorldCat and the like.
Unfortunately, even worse than anybody else here, I suspect. I've never been educated in French - I did a Spanish GCSE haha.
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Ooh, that's encouraging. I wouldn't pay for an year's subscription, but one or two months might be worth it, especially when I'm back at work.
Reminder for
And yeah, he was super annoyed at Fritz during the Seven Years' War, so annoyed that he had to write to him ALL THE TIME, so Fritz could bitch to Catt and Mitchell and sundry about how Voltaire was just the absolute scum of the earth, while devouring the letters with his eyes and exclaiming, "He hasn't forgotten me!" :P
You know. Just another day on board the Fritz/Voltaire ship.
Yes! On the 13th of October 1750, Voltaire sent the following letter (there is a French original, and English translation which I will quote, which is slightly different from your version):
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOREVER.
The University of Oxford.
Fancy! I'll keep that in mind when using WorldCat and the like.
Unfortunately, even worse than anybody else here, I suspect. I've never been educated in French - I did a Spanish GCSE haha.
Join the club of non-French speakers, then. :)
I'll be popping in occasionally, then!
Yay!