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Updated: June 30, 2025
About all of Voltaire's science he got from the lady and this was true of languages as well. To a nervous, irritable and intense thinker a certain amount of solitude seems necessary. Voltaire occasionally grew weary of the delicious quiet of Civey, and the indictment against him having been quashed, he would go away to Paris or elsewhere.
M. de Voltaire responded by reading to her a little thing of his own. The next day she called again. Some say that Madame called on Voltaire to secure a loan on her husband's estate at Civey. No matter she got the loan. Doubtless she did not know where she was going none of us do. We are all sailing under sealed orders. The Madame had been married eight years.
If the piece was dramatic he would act it out with roll of r's, striding walk, grimace and gesticulations gracefully done, for the man was an actor of rare talent. Emerson says, "Let a man do a thing incomparably well, and the world will make a path to his door, though he live in a forest." There was no lack of society at Civey the writers, poets and philosophers found their way there.
If she had thought to make Voltaire jealous, she had reckoned without her host he was relieved to find her fierce supervision relaxed. When she passed away he worked his woe up into a pretty panegyric, closed up his affairs at Civey, and left there forever. So far as the government was concerned, Voltaire seems to have passed his days in accepting rewards and receiving punishments.
Pamphlets which he had been refused permission to publish in Paris were printed at Rouen and were setting all Paris by the ears. With Madame du Chatelet he fled to Civey, where was the tumbledown chateau of the Marquis the Madame's complaisant husband.
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