Had I been in the Emperor's place, I would not have passed Ferney without a glance at the old Patriarch, were it only to say that I had seen and heard him.

Arsenals, ships, manufactures, these you can see anywhere; but it requires ages to produce a Voltaire.

By the rumors I hear, it will have been a certain great Lady Theresa, very Orthodox and little Philosophical, who forbade her Son to visit the Apostle of Tolerance." D'ALEMBERT (in answer): "No doubt your Majesty's guess is right.

It must have been the Lady Mother.

Nobody here believes that the advice came from his Sister [Queen Marie Antoinette], who, they say, is full of esteem for the Patriarch, and has more than once let him know it by third parties." [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxv.