Voltaire scheef Nederlands: MijnheerUwe vertaalling is better dan de andere ..
maar ge had daar van de recht copy niet .
IK heb de eer van ze u te senden .
u aenmerking op den onderdaen die zich met omzichtigheid?
moet gedragen, is al te waragtig ( waarachtig )
Bron: Spiegel Historiael weet niet dat neet, nu net, Fries voor niet is en rekent zulks als spelfout aan "vol spelfouten ... neet voor niet" maar daar moet zeker alleen Geschiedenis voor gedaan hebben ...
Daar komt bij dat de Friese ministers tijdens het Ver. Kon. der Ned. niet alleen in Brussel gewoon Frans spraken. In Pruisen ook.
Voltaire: la Pucelle d'Orléans
In 1750, Voltaire went to Potsdam to serve Frederick the Great as a court poet and philosopher. He spent three years there, writing and antagonizing the king, and again left on poor terms.
By this time, Voltaire was extremely rich, through speculation and bought a chateau in Geneva.
It was at the chateau he named “Les Delices” that he wrote the work he is most famous for, Candide. The local government did not like his presence, so in 1759 he purchased a huge estate close to the French border called Ferney.
Voltaire could now afford to write and concentrate on his passion, attacking Christianity. He considered Christianity to be very detrimental, and wrote many treatises, books, poems, and plays to that effect. He also wrote what many consider to be his best work Philosophical Dictionary. This work, like many of his others, was publicly burned and banned in many areas.
Voltaire returned briefly to Paris in 1778, but due to the trip he died at the age of 84 on May 30.
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