The Philippiques were in my copy of Orieux, but I didn't get the allusion (and Orieux didn't mention it, in my copy at least).
(Eh, you can keep mentioning it. There are TOO MANY people with the SAME NAME in this fandom, it is always worth telling me how one of them is not the other one of them. Except for Richelieu, I've got them straight now (or at least the two of them most relevant) :P )
I didn't remember the war chariots and I thought I would have -- I checked and I'm pretty sure that passage has been excised in my copy. There's just a passing mention of war chariots when talking about his niece's marriage to Marquis de Florian (who was apparently pro-war-chariots).
Who in this base world could resist a king who kissed one's hand?
Not Voltaire for sure! Haha, yeah, this is an awesome quote -- I had totally made a note of it even before you mentioned it (someday I will post about Voltaire Stuff, but not today), because THESE TWO.
Re: Voltaire miscellanea
(Eh, you can keep mentioning it. There are TOO MANY people with the SAME NAME in this fandom, it is always worth telling me how one of them is not the other one of them. Except for Richelieu, I've got them straight now (or at least the two of them most relevant) :P )
I didn't remember the war chariots and I thought I would have -- I checked and I'm pretty sure that passage has been excised in my copy. There's just a passing mention of war chariots when talking about his niece's marriage to Marquis de Florian (who was apparently pro-war-chariots).
Who in this base world could resist a king who kissed one's hand?
Not Voltaire for sure! Haha, yeah, this is an awesome quote -- I had totally made a note of it even before you mentioned it (someday I will post about Voltaire Stuff, but not today), because THESE TWO.