Voltaire to Frederick the Great…3, 1769 October 9
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Voltaire to Frederick the Great…3, 1769 October 9
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Quand Talestris que le nord admira
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Copy of a letter from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, written from Ferney and dated 9 December 1769. The copy is written in the hand of Wagnière.
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Voltaire begins this letter with several lines of poetry, and then goes on to talk about Alexander the Great of Macedon. He tells Frederick about how Alexander the Great had a love for the fine arts. Alexander was a skilled writer of poetry, something which surprised the Macedonians, because they only knew him as a “brave warrior”. Voltaire mentions a scholar who apparently retired in the Caucasus Mountains after serving in the court of Alexander. Voltaire “would give all the Caucasus Mountains in order to see this foreigner for two days in the Court of Alexander.”
This item has been miscatalogued by the University of Southern California and actually dates to 9 December 1769.
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