Chapter VII: Ferney

His life at Ferney 329

Madame Denis 329

His vast correspondence 333

Consulted by Vauvenargues, Chastellux, Turgot, and
others 334

Complaisance of his letters 336

Sophistical defence of the practice of denying authorship 339

Voltaire’s just alarm for his own safety 340

His Easter communion of 1768 341

Further proceedings with the Bishop of Annecy 342

Voltaire made temporal father of the Capucins of Gex 344

Voltaire’s influence on Rousseau 345

Difference between their respective schools 347

Their rivalry represents the social dead-lock of the time 348

Voltaire the more far-sighted of the two 350

Two signal effects of Rousseau’s teaching 352

Diderot and the Encyclopædia 354

Voltaire’s constant efforts to secure redress for the victims
of wrong 357

Calas, Sirven, La Barre 357

Count Lally 358

Admiral Byng 359

His interest in the pretended liberation of Greece 360

In the partition of Poland 361

In the accession of Turgot to power 362

Visit to Paris and death 363

τὰ μὲν γὰρ σωφρόνων ἤθη σφόδρα μὲν εὐλαβῆ καὶ δίκαια καὶ σωτήρια, δριμύτητος δὲ καί τινος ἰταμότητος ὀξείας καὶ πρακτικῆς ἐνδεῖται.... τὰ δ’ ἀνδρεῖά γε αὖ πρὸς μὲν τὸ δίκαιον καὶ εὐλαβὲς ἐκείνων ἐπιδεέστερα, τὸ δ’ ἐν ταῖς πράξεσι διαφερόντως ἴσχει. πάντα δὲ καλῶς γίγνεσθαι τὰ περὶ τὰς πόλεις, τούτοιν μὴ παραγενομένοιν ἀμφοῖν, ἀδύνατον.—_Politicus_, 311 A.

πότερον τοὺς ἀνδρείους θαῤῥαλέους λέγεις, ἢ ἄλλο τι; Καὶ ἴτας γε, ἔφη, ἐφ’ ἃ οἱ πολλοὶ φοβοῦντας ἰέvαι.—_Protagoras_, 349 E.