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That "asteure" is weird to me! I mean, not just because it stumped me (which it did until reading your french text) but because I would have figured it would have been rendered as three separate words, even if the spelling of them was garbled. But maybe Fritz looked at it like a contraction or something.

Duhan may have come across as suitably pious, FW not realizing that for some people, religion and freethinking philosophy were compatible.

Oh, yeah, like felis I was struck by the piety of his letters. I can see how that might have blinded FW to his less orthodox opinions. (added to his natural capacity to be extremely awfully bad at picking kidstaff...)