Fleury and he have their touches of direct Correspondence now and then; and obliquely there are always intermediates and channels.

Small hint, the slightest twinkle of Fleury's eyelashes, would be duly speeded to Voltaire, and set him going.

We shall see him expressly missioned hither, on similar errand, by and by; though with as bad success as at present.
Of this his First Visit to Berlin, his Second to Friedrich, Voltaire in the VIE PRIVEE says nothing.

But in his SIECLE DE LOUIS XV.

he drops, with proud modesty, a little foot-note upon it: "The Author was with the King of Prussia at that time; and can affirm that Cardinal de Fleury was totally astray in regard to the Prince he had now to do with." To which a DATE slightly wrong is added; the rest being perfectly correct.
[_OEuvres_ (Siecle de Louis XV., c.