In this letter, Voltaire claims that he has become involved inone of the most ridiculous scandals of the century in the Mémoire de Desfontaines written by Pierre François Guyot Desfontaines. Voltaire mocks Desfontaines’s attempts to portray himself as a modest, quality, and moral man and further critiques Desfontaines’s claim to have friends. Voltaire hides behind the pseudonym ‘Malicourt’ in this letter so that he can insult Desfontaines with greater vehemence.