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The Friends of Voltaire

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‘Physical Degradation of the Royal Races, Essay on the’ (Condorcet), 291

‘Polish Exile, Letter of a’ (Condorcet), 291

Pompadour, Madame de, 155, 178

Porée, Père, 177

‘Portable Theology’ (d’Holbach), 141

‘Preface, The’ (d’Alembert), 12, 13, 31, 45

‘Priests Unmasked’ (d’Holbach), 141

‘Progress of the Human Mind, History of the’ (Condorcet), 289-90, 291, 296

‘Prophet, The Little, of Boehmischbroda’ (Grimm), 155

Puisieux, Madame, 39-40, 43


‘Rameau’s Nephew’ (Diderot), 61

Raynal, Abbé, 127, 129, 151, 156, 157

‘Reflections’ (Vauvenargues), 111

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 16, 43, 47, 126-7,
      128, 133, 151, 154, 164-6, 196, 199

Rousseau, Madame, 5-6


Saint-Lambert, Marquis de, 72, 126, 164-5

Sarret, 287, 292

Saxe-Gotha, Duchess of, 153, 156, 158, 167

‘Seneca, Life of’ (Diderot), 53

‘Social System, The’ (d’Holbach), 147

Sterne, Laurence, 55, 56, 85, 128

Suard, J. B., 156, 293-4

Suard, Madame, 293-4

‘System of Nature, The’ (d’Holbach), 141-7, 149


‘Tarare’ (Beaumarchais), 263

Tencin, Madame de, 3-4, 6, 10-11, 178

Tercier (press censor), 194, 197

Terrai, Abbé, 225

‘Theory of Winds, Treatise on the’ (d’Alembert), 10

Theriot, 156

Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques, 89-90, 125, 133,
      136, 184, 195-6, 204, 273-4, 275;
  his character and work, 206-7;
  birth and education, 207-8;
  at the Sorbonne, 208-10;
  at Madame de Graffigny’s, 211-12;
  visits Voltaire, 213-14;
  as Intendant of Limoges, 214-24;
  Minister of Marine, 224-5;
  Controller-General, 225-32;
  his dismissal, 232-3;
  last years and death, 233-4;
  position among Voltaire’s friends, 235

‘Turgot, Life of’ (Condorcet), 221-222, 275


‘Universal Morality’ (d’Holbach), 147


Vandeul, Madame de (Angélique Diderot), 40-1, 57, 59, 60

Vaudreuil, Comte de, 253, 261

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de, character of his writing, 96;
  birth and education, 97-8;
  as a soldier, 98-100;
  campaign in Bohemia, 101-2;
  invalided, 103-4;
  friendship with Voltaire, 104-7;
  settles in Paris, 107-8;
  his philosophy, 108-11;
  his book, 111-13;
  friends in Paris, 113-14;
  illness and death, 115-17

Vergniaud, Pierre, 221, 288

Vernet, Madame, 286, 287, 289, 291, 292, 294

Volland, Mademoiselle, 51, 52, 54, 59

‘Volland, Letters to Mademoiselle’ (Diderot), 54, 61, 130, 138

Voltaire, Arouet de, 1, 17, 62, 96-7, 225-6, 233, 250, 260;
  visited by d’Alembert, 15, 25-6;
  friendship with Diderot, 41-2 55, 58-9;
  opinion of Galiani’s ‘Dialogues,’ 87;
  friendship with Vauvenargues, 104-7, 113-14;
  opinion of Vauvenargues’ ‘Maxims,’ 112-13;
  of d’Holbach’s ‘System of Nature,’ 144, 146;
  and of Grimm’s ‘Little Prophet,’ 155;
  visited by Grimm and Mme. d’Épinay, 166;
  friendship with Helvétius, 179-80;
  opinion of his book ‘On the Mind,’ 196, 198-9;
  visited by Turgot, 213-214, 234;
  opinion of Beaumarchais, 242;
  and of the ‘Goezman Memoirs,’ 245;
  visited by Condorcet, 271-2


Walpole, Horace, 129, 135