[265] Œuv. lxvii. p. 94.
[266] A drawing of Voltaire’s château at Ferney is given in Blancheton’s Vues Pittoresques des Châteaux de France (Paris, 1826), Part II. The château is still standing, and the prospect from the terrace repays a visit, apart from the interest of association. The church is now a receptacle for wine-casks.
[267] The reader who is curious as to the most indifferent details, will find what he seeks in a singular monument of painstaking spleen, entitled Ménage et Finances de Voltaire, by M. Nicolardot (Paris, 1854).
[268] Corr. 1761. Œuv. lxvii. p. 190.
[269] Corr. Lit. vi. p. 272; v. p. 385.
[270] Grimm, Corr. Lit. v. p. 393.
[271] Corr. 1761. Œuv. lxxv. p. 158.
[272] Born 1710; lost her first husband 1744; married one Vivier in 1779; died 1790.
[273] Corr. 1770. Œuv. lxx. p. 175.
[274] Corr. 1771-72. Œuv. lxxiv. pp. 733 and 737.