Perhaps M.de Voltaire did say it:--why not, had it only been prudent?
He really likes those Verses much more than I; but knows well enough, SUB ROSA, what kind of Verses they are.

This also is a horrible suspicion; that the King should hear of this,--as doubtless the King did, though without going delirious upon it at all.

["To Niece Denis," dates as above (-- OEuvres de Voltaire,--lxxiv.

408, lxxv.

17).] Thank YOU, my Perpetual President, not the less!-- OF MAUPERTUIS, IN SUCCESSIVE PHASES .-- ...