Nope, I see nothing. I didn't remember it, and I rescanned the passage just now, and nothing.
Okay, since this biographer was the one who informed us on the Madame Denis 50 - 53 letters and thus is up to date with the recent research, I'm assuming he'd know. So now I wonder whether the reason Zinsser doesn't provide a footnote to "historians have suggested" is that what she means is "my theory is that..."
And God yes, this assumption that you become gay from an unwanted approach, let alone molestation, is incredibly annoying.
On a lighter note: though I suppose it's possible it crossed Voltaire's mind that he might end up being expected to do more than kiss hands) doesn't make you gay!
Quite, and for those of us just joining us, here's the glorious quote for the trashy tell all memoirs again: He was accuſtomed to very singular demonstrations of tenderness to younger favourites than I, and forgetting for a moment I was not of their age and had not a fine hand, he seized it and imprinted a kiss, I took his, returned his salute, and signed myself his slave.
Re: Addenda re: Madame Denis in all three books and Voltaire's backstory in Zinsser
Okay, since this biographer was the one who informed us on the Madame Denis 50 - 53 letters and thus is up to date with the recent research, I'm assuming he'd know. So now I wonder whether the reason Zinsser doesn't provide a footnote to "historians have suggested" is that what she means is "my theory is that..."
And God yes, this assumption that you become gay from an unwanted approach, let alone molestation, is incredibly annoying.
On a lighter note: though I suppose it's possible it crossed Voltaire's mind that he might end up being expected to do more than kiss hands) doesn't make you gay!
Quite, and for those of us just joining us, here's the glorious quote for the trashy tell all memoirs again: He was accuſtomed to very singular demonstrations of tenderness to younger favourites than I, and forgetting for a moment I was not of their age and had not a fine hand, he seized it and imprinted a kiss, I took his, returned his salute, and signed myself his slave.