Wooow. That is the best of all possible anecdotes. It just keeps getting better. I love it to death. Voltaire at his best indeed! (And also the royals, for once.)
MT *not a pen pal, but informed*: Fine. For the girl. 200 copies.
Hee, MT.
Now where "hosting Émilie" would rank in the list of "lunch with MT", "not arresting Erlangen journalist who keeps critisizing me", and "marrying female Marwitz to Austrian nobleman", I don't know, but I suppose beneath "Lunch with MT" but at least equal to "marrying Marwitz to an Austrian"...
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Re: Jean Orieux: The Life of Voltaire - I
Date: 2020-04-07 01:09 pm (UTC)MT *not a pen pal, but informed*: Fine. For the girl. 200 copies.
Hee, MT.
Now where "hosting Émilie" would rank in the list of "lunch with MT", "not arresting Erlangen journalist who keeps critisizing me", and "marrying female Marwitz to Austrian nobleman", I don't know, but I suppose beneath "Lunch with MT" but at least equal to "marrying Marwitz to an Austrian"...
Sounds about right to me.