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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XIV. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER II
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(Here is a pleasant friend to have on visit to you, in the next apartment, with such an eye and such a nose!)...
"Monseigneur," finely insinuates Voltaire in conclusion, "is not there" a certain Frenchman, true to his Country, to his King, and to your Eminency, with perhaps peculiar facilities for being of use, in such delicate case?
--"JE SUIS," much your Eminency's.

[_OEuvres,_ lxxii.

p.
568 (to Cideville), p.

579 (D'Argenson), p.

574 (Fleury).] Friedrich, on the day while Voltaire at Brussels sat so busy writing of him, was at Salzdahl, visiting his Brunswick kindred there, on the road home to his usual affairs.


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