laws only: but at last I hear and see this adorable Sister, whom
Love follows as Page:--Ah, it is not offending the Three Graces to
love them all three!"
--In Oeuvres de Voltaire, xviii.: No. 1 is,
p. 292 (in OEuvres de Frederic, xiv. 90-92,
the ANSWERS to it); No. 2 is, p. 320; No. 3, p. 321.]


BRUNSWICK, 16th October (blazing sunset, as it proved, but
brighter almost than meridian), a LETTER FROM VOLTAIRE TO
MAUPERTUIS (still in France since that horrible
Mollwitz-Pandour Business).

"In my wanderings I received the Letter where my dear Flattener of
this Globe deigns to remember me with so much friendship. Is it
possible that--... I made your compliments to all your friends at
Berlin; that is, to all the Court." "Saw Dr. Eller decomposing
water into elastic air [or thinking he did so, 1743]; saw the Opera
of TITUS, which is a masterpiece of music [by Friedrich himself,
with the important aid of Graun]: it was, without vanity, a treat
the King gave me, or rather gave himself; he wished I should see
him in his glory.

"His Opera-House is the finest in Europe. Charlottenburg is a
delicious abode: Friedrich does the honors there, the King knowing
nothing of it. ... One lives at Potsdam as in the Chateau of a
French Seigneur who had culture and genius,--in spite of that big
Battalion of Guards, which seems to me the terriblest Battalion in
this world.