344 MADAME GEOFFRIN. 



a country-judge, and contributing as much as in him 

 lies to the extermination of the molt odious fuperfti- 

 tion/' 



The Anfwer of Madame GeofFrin. 



Warfaw, the 25th of July. 



<i Immediately on receiving your letter, I fent it, 

 together with the paragraph annexed to it, to the king. 

 His majefty did me the honour to write on the fpot 

 the billet which I here inciofe in the original.'' 

 The Billet of the King. 



<ff In the letter that Voltaire has written to you, I 

 think I perceive the reafon of his applying to friend- 

 fhip in behalf of juftice. If I had to make the image 

 of friendihip, I would give it your features.' That 

 deity is the mother of beneficence. You have been 

 mine a long time ; and your fon would not refufe you 

 what Voltaire requefts even though it did not tend fo 

 much to my honour." 



(( As I am indebted to you, fir, for this, fo I make 

 it an offering to you. His majefty ordered me to be 

 told, that we would read the brochure together. His 

 majefty read it to me ; and, as the king reads as welj 

 as you write, the reader and the author made me pafs 

 a delightful evening. His majefty was moft intimately 

 affected at the condition of the unfortunate fufferers, 

 in whofe caufe you take fo much concern, and gave 

 me from his purfe 200 ducats for them. The king 

 fighed when he came to that paffage in your letter, 

 where you feem to lament that you could not accom* 

 pany me. You have feen the king ? Well then, the 

 foul, the heart, the mind and the civilities of that 

 great perfonage would have been an interefting, an 

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