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mildred_of_midgard ([personal profile] mildred_of_midgard) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2020-04-07 02:20 pm (UTC)

Re: Jean Orieux: The Life of Voltaire - I

Except for one. Looking at you, Louis XV!

My expectations of him doing anything, good or bad, are so low they're off the charts. :P Pompadour is the de facto royal here.

Who kept getting signed copies of his works and were in a strange mixture of pride and facepalm about young Arouet all the time.

That must have been fun. :D

this earlier depiction, in the nude, for which Fritz paid a share.)

"Paid a share," Fritz, pfff. I expect you to commission a copy and put it up next to MT in your bedroom. :P

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