King praised me from head to foot, while the Abbe Desfontaines and

other scoundrels (GREDINS) were busy defaming me in Paris at least

WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF THE INTERVIEW AT THE TIME.

But let us take the contemporary account, which also we have at

first hand; which is almost pathetic to read; such a contrast

between ruddy morning and the storms of the afternoon! Here are

two Letters from Voltaire; fine transparent human Letters, as his

generally are: the first of them written directly on getting back