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"Persons in whom you place too much confidence have spread abroad, under your name, copies of a poem, entitled 'La Cour du Roi Petaud. In this, wherein insult is cast on a personage who should be exempt from such offence, is also outraged, in a most indecent way, a lovely female, whom you would adore as we do, if you had the happiness to know her.
While he was waiting to form an opinion, Christophe tried to find out something about it from musical criticism. That was not easy. It was like the Court of King Petaud. Not only did the various papers lightly contradict each other: but they contradicted themselves in different articles almost on different pages. To read them all was enough to drive a man crazy.
It was in this way that mesdames de Chateauroux and de Pompadour had had his homage. He had sung their praises, and, of course, he could not forget me. You will recall to mind the letter which he wrote to the duc d'Aiguillon, on occasion of the piece of poetry entitled "<La Cour du Roi Petaud>." He had denied having composed it, but this denial had not been addressed directly to me.
The king of Denmark The courtesans of Paris The duc de Choiseul and the bishop of Orleans Witty repartees of the king of Denmark His visit to madame du Barry "The court of king Petaud," a satire Letter of the duc d'Aiguillon to Voltaire The duchesse de Grammont mystified Unpublished letter of Voltaire's
It was in this way that mesdames de Chateauroux and de Pompadour had had his homage. He had sung their praises, and, of course, he could not forget me. You will recall to mind the letter which he wrote to the duc d'Aiguillon, on occasion of the piece of poetry entitled "La Cour du Roi Petaud." He had denied having composed it, but this denial had not been addressed directly to me.
The king of Denmark The courtesans of Paris The duc de Choiseul and the bishop of Orleans Witty repartees of the king of Denmark His visit to madame du Barry "The court of king Petaud," a satire Letter of the duc d'Aiguillon to Voltaire The duchesse de Grammont mystified Unpublished letter of Voltaire's
No, I am not the author of the 'Cour du Roi Petaud. The verses of this rhapsody are not worth much, it is true; but indeed they are not mine: they are too miserable, and of too bad a style. All this vile trash spread abroad in my name, all those pamphlets without talent, make me lose my senses, and now I have scarcely enough left to defend myself with.
"Persons in whom you place too much confidence have spread abroad, under your name, copies of a poem, entitled <La Cour du Roi Petaud.> In this, wherein insult is cast on a personage who should be exempt from such offence, is also outraged, in a most indecent way, a lovely female, whom you would adore as we do, if you had the happiness to know her.
"No, I am not the author of the <Cour du Roi Petaud.> The verses of this rhapsody are not worth much, it is true; but indeed they are not mine: they are too miserable, and of too bad a style. All this vile trash spread abroad in my name, all those pamphlets without talent, make me lose my senses, and now I have scarcely enough left to defend myself with.
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