requs

Updated: May 18, 2025

Of these things he made a little packet, which he sealed up, and wrote upon it these lines: "Je les requs avec tendresse, Je vous les rends avec douleur; C'est ainsi qu'un amant, dans sou extreme fureur, Rend le portrait de sa maitresse." He called his servant, and commanded him to take this packet to the king. Voltaire did not hesitate a moment.

L. (Luise) Mühlbach - Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends