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VOLTAIRE (1694-1778)
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VOLTAIRE (1694-1778)
L.A.S. "V", at Les Délices March 10 [1759], to his friend Nicolas-Claude THIERIOT| 2 pages in-4 (fold marks, small cracks repaired).
Extraordinary letter on Candide, which Voltaire denies being the author. "Jay received by the Savoyard traveler, my old friend, your letter, your very scabby pamphlets, and the letter of Madame Bellot. I am going to read her works, and I beg you to send me her address because according to the custom of people of genius, she has not dated it in any way, and I do not know what year she wrote to me, nor where she lives. As for you, I suspect that you are still in the rue St Honoré [at La Popelinière]. You change hospices as often as ministers change places. Madame de Fontaine will return to you shortly. She is in charge of reimbursing you for the small advances you were kind enough to make to decorate my mind.
Jay read Candide. It amuses me more than the history of the Huns [Histoire générale des Huns, des Turcs... by de Guignes (1756-58), 5 vol. in-4°], and than all your heavy dissertations on trade and finance. Two young people in Paris have told me that they resemble Candide like two drops of water. Me, I look enough like Signor Pococurante. But God forbid that I should have any part in this work. I have no doubt that Mr. Joli de Fleuri [the Attorney General at the Parliament of Paris, Guillaume-François-Louis JOLY DE FLEURY] will eloquently prove to all the assembled chambers that this is a book against morals, the laws and religion. Frankly it is better to be in the country of the Mumps than in your good city of Paris. You were once monkeys who frolicked. Now you want to be ruminating oxen. This does not suit you. Believe me my old friend, come and see me. I only have oxen in my carts. Si quid novi, scribe. Et cum otiosus eris, veni, et vale ". Correspondence (Pléiade), t. V, p. 408.
L.A.S. "V", at Les Délices March 10 [1759], to his friend Nicolas-Claude THIERIOT| 2 pages in-4 (fold marks, small cracks repaired).
Extraordinary letter on Candide, which Voltaire denies being the author. "Jay received by the Savoyard traveler, my old friend, your letter, your very scabby pamphlets, and the letter of Madame Bellot. I am going to read her works, and I beg you to send me her address because according to the custom of people of genius, she has not dated it in any way, and I do not know what year she wrote to me, nor where she lives. As for you, I suspect that you are still in the rue St Honoré [at La Popelinière]. You change hospices as often as ministers change places. Madame de Fontaine will return to you shortly. She is in charge of reimbursing you for the small advances you were kind enough to make to decorate my mind.
Jay read Candide. It amuses me more than the history of the Huns [Histoire générale des Huns, des Turcs... by de Guignes (1756-58), 5 vol. in-4°], and than all your heavy dissertations on trade and finance. Two young people in Paris have told me that they resemble Candide like two drops of water. Me, I look enough like Signor Pococurante. But God forbid that I should have any part in this work. I have no doubt that Mr. Joli de Fleuri [the Attorney General at the Parliament of Paris, Guillaume-François-Louis JOLY DE FLEURY] will eloquently prove to all the assembled chambers that this is a book against morals, the laws and religion. Frankly it is better to be in the country of the Mumps than in your good city of Paris. You were once monkeys who frolicked. Now you want to be ruminating oxen. This does not suit you. Believe me my old friend, come and see me. I only have oxen in my carts. Si quid novi, scribe. Et cum otiosus eris, veni, et vale ". Correspondence (Pléiade), t. V, p. 408.