Re: Diderot and Catherine

Date: 2020-10-26 12:04 pm (UTC)
felis: (House renfair)
From: [personal profile] felis
Ahaha, oh, man, the deja-vus!

Citation: letter from Voltaire to the Count de Tressan on February 13, 1758.

While I do not have access to E-Enlightenment, the letter can be found here - and while he mentions Diderot, I do not see that it says what it's supposed to say about Potsdam, but my French is rather rudimentary, so maybe I'm missing something.

ETA: Given that I ended up in these parts because I wrote about being charmed by Fritz' physics experiments, Voltaire's explanation for why he gave up on physics in this very letter is quite funny to me, though. :D
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