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THE ARREST OF VOLTAIRE AND HIS NIECE BY FREDERICK’S ORDER / BY / JULES GIRADET.

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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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VOLTAIRE 9? named Hirsch about a discreditable speculation in Saxony money. Finally hebegan a violent controversy with Maupertuis, president of the Berlin Academy.He libelled this boorish but able scholar, who held his office by appointment ofFrederick. He lied to the king concerning one of the most cutting satires inliterature, which was aimed at the president. He tricked the king in the shab-biest manner. He had succeeded in getting into difficulty with his usual facility. He asked for permission to leave the court of Frederick, pleading business atParis, and also that bis health required him to visit Plombieres, in order to drinkof its waters. Frederick gave him leave to go. On the eve of going, in utterdisregard of his promise to the king, he fired a parting shot at Maupertuis, in theshape of a supplement to the attack he had already made, then travelled leis-urely on his way. Frederick waited until he reached Frankfort; there he wasdetained by order of the king on the charge of h

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