I made my reverence, and began the acquaintance by feeling his pulse, as if I had been his chief physician.

The fit over, he dressed himself, and took his place at table.

Algarotti, Keyserling, Maupertuis, and the King's Envoy to the States-General"-- one Rasfeld (skilled in HERSTAL matters, I could guess),--"we were of this supper, and discussed, naturally in a profound manner, the Immortality of the Soul, Liberty, Fate, the Androgynes of Plato [the ANDROGYNOI, or Men-Women, in Plato's CONVIVIUM; by no means the finest symbolic fancy of the divine Plato],--and other small topics of that nature." [Voltaire, _OEuvres,_ (Piece once called VIE PRIVEE), ii.

26, 27.] This is Voltaire's account of the Visit,--which included three "Suppers," all huddled into one by him here;--and he says nothing more of it; launching off now into new errors, about HERSTAL, the ANTI-MACHIAVEL, and so forth: new and uglier errors, with much more of mendacity and serious malice in them, than in this harmless half-dozen now put on the score against him.
Of this Supper-Party, I know by face four of the guests: Maupertuis, Voltaire, Algarotti, Keyserling;--Rasfeld, Rambonet can sit as simulacra or mute accompaniment.

Voltaire arrived on Sunday evening; stayed till Wednesday.