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VOLTAIRE (1694-1778). L.A., aux Délices 23 mai [1763, à François de CHENNE
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VOLTAIRE (1694-1778). L.A., at Les Délices May 23 [1763, to François de CHENNEVIÈRES]| 2 1/2 pages in-4.
"People who are about seventy years old, sickly and almost blind, do not write as they would like to, my dear friend, and God knows what happens to letters. Thus he wrote to M. de Varenne, secretary of the Controller General, who did not receive anything| Chennevières must know him: "because he has spirit and he makes pretty verses. I beg you to clarify this adventure with him. [...] It seems to me that the parliament is keeping his reply to the comptroller general waiting a long time. If the financial arrangements I have been told are as they are said to be, it is quite certain that they are as reasonable as they are necessary| and I do not see how Parliament can oppose them. He probably does not want to prevent the King from paying his debts. The victorious English pay theirs"... Correspondence (Pléiade), t. VII, n° 7769.
"People who are about seventy years old, sickly and almost blind, do not write as they would like to, my dear friend, and God knows what happens to letters. Thus he wrote to M. de Varenne, secretary of the Controller General, who did not receive anything| Chennevières must know him: "because he has spirit and he makes pretty verses. I beg you to clarify this adventure with him. [...] It seems to me that the parliament is keeping his reply to the comptroller general waiting a long time. If the financial arrangements I have been told are as they are said to be, it is quite certain that they are as reasonable as they are necessary| and I do not see how Parliament can oppose them. He probably does not want to prevent the King from paying his debts. The victorious English pay theirs"... Correspondence (Pléiade), t. VII, n° 7769.