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So that Voltaire will have to languish: "Wrong, yes; and sick, nigh dead, your Majesty! Ah, could not one get to some Country Lodge near you, 'the MARQUISAT' for instance? Here are two other Excerpts; and these will suffice:
"The estate of Berville; the Hôtel Mazarin; the lands of Bourget; the Marquisat of Charleville; the lands of Orcher; the estate of Roissy Gad! what a number of them I find." "But, Monsieur," expostulated the Swiss, "what is that you do? Are these not your possessions?" "Not so, mon ami," replied Law. "They once were mine. They are estates in France. Take back these deeds.
Here are some of the properties he has lately purchased in the realm of France. The Marquisat d'Effiat 'tis worth eight hundred thousand livres; the estate of Riviere worth nine hundred thousand livres; the estate of Roissy worth six hundred and fifty thousand livres; the estates of Berville, of Fontaine, of Yville, of Gerponville, of Tancarville, of Guermande the tale runs near a score!
The first we have seen: how it commenced in brightness as of the sun, and ended, by that Hirsch business, in whirlwinds of smoke and soot, Voltaire retiring, on his passionate prayer, to that silent Country-house which he calls the Marquisat; there to lie in hospital, and wash himself a little, and let the skies wash themselves.
A couple of philosophers, without being courtiers, may dine in the Palace of a Philosopher-King: I should even take the liberty of sending one of his Majesty's Carriages for you,-at two precise. And King Friedrich has relented, too; grants me the Marquisat; can refuse me nothing!
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