Ah, thank you for that. I thought about checking to see if I could find it outside E-Enlightenment, but I settled in favor of posting before bed, and also going to bed on time. Which is no small amount of self-discipline from me!
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.
No, I don't see it either. In that case, it's uncited (the footnote leading to the citation of this letter was actually the sentence prior to the one referring to Potsdam, but I was hoping from the way he wrote it that it was all from one letter instead of the subsequent sentences being TOTALLY UNSOURCED, which unfortunately would be totally in character for this author).
Well, in that case, I'm not accepting that Voltaire told Diderot et al. to go to Potsdam in 1758 unless I see some evidence. Thanks again for checking!
Re: Diderot and Catherine
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.
No, I don't see it either. In that case, it's uncited (the footnote leading to the citation of this letter was actually the sentence prior to the one referring to Potsdam, but I was hoping from the way he wrote it that it was all from one letter instead of the subsequent sentences being TOTALLY UNSOURCED, which unfortunately would be totally in character for this author).
Well, in that case, I'm not accepting that Voltaire told Diderot et al. to go to Potsdam in 1758 unless I see some evidence. Thanks again for checking!