Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse begins by discussing the upcoming coronation of Louis XVI, stating that she suspects Turgot will remain in Paris for it. She mocks the people flocking to Turgot’s house from the countryside in order to secure his friendship. She then goes on to discuss two works that she has been reading: Le Monopole and Voltaire’s Diatribe à l’auteur des Ephémérides. Though she calls Voltaire the ‘viellard de Ferney’, she nevertheless adds that he has the vigour, gaiety, and frivolity of a twenty-year-old. She goes on to note that there are some good things and excellent traits in the work, concluding that what Voltaire says about Turgot’s work is ‘vraiment touchant’.