when Voltaire in a letter expresses the hope of becoming her only lover, she immediately shoots that down; she always had other lovers, and he knew that, not least because some of them ended up having debts he had to help out with.
omg I have to say this is hilarious.
Historians have sugggested the young Voltaire was molested at his college by the Jesuit instructors.
You know, I think I just ignored that (and the other stuff too) because she was clearly trying to make Voltaire bisexual, and... it just really really sounded like she was trying too hard (quite a long time ago I went through a period of reading author biographies where they were arguing everyone was bi or gay; maybe some of those people actually were, but even naive trusting me found it hard to believe everyone was) and Voltaire didn't really come across like that to me anyway from what you guys were saying, even with Fritz. of course, there was the additional problem with Fritz that neither of them would shut up enough to actually have sex
Though yeah, I didn't remember about this when you told us about the Jesuit instructors that he really liked, which I thought was awfully endearing and which I agree would falsify the hypothesis.
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Re: Addenda re: Madame Denis in all three books and Voltaire's backstory in Zinsser
Date: 2020-10-16 05:46 am (UTC)when Voltaire in a letter expresses the hope of becoming her only lover, she immediately shoots that down; she always had other lovers, and he knew that, not least because some of them ended up having debts he had to help out with.
omg I have to say this is hilarious.
Historians have sugggested the young Voltaire was molested at his college by the Jesuit instructors.
You know, I think I just ignored that (and the other stuff too) because she was clearly trying to make Voltaire bisexual, and... it just really really sounded like she was trying too hard (quite a long time ago I went through a period of reading author biographies where they were arguing everyone was bi or gay; maybe some of those people actually were, but even naive trusting me found it hard to believe everyone was) and Voltaire didn't really come across like that to me anyway from what you guys were saying, even with Fritz.
of course, there was the additional problem with Fritz that neither of them would shut up enough to actually have sexThough yeah, I didn't remember about this when you told us about the Jesuit instructors that he really liked, which I thought was awfully endearing and which I agree would falsify the hypothesis.