#thieriot

[your-disobedient-servant]

a compilation of reasons why e02 of Voltaire, ce diable d’homme should really be titled “Voltaire a toujours froid”

[detournementsmineurs]

“Les Aventures du Jeune Voltaire” mini série biographique de Georges-Marc Benamou sur François-Marie Arouet, dit Voltaire (1694-1778) - avec Thomas Solivérès, Victor Meutelet, Victor Le Blond, Christa Theret, Maud Wyler, Valérie Bonneton, Hippolyte Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Thibault de Montalembert, François Marthouret, Pascal Demolon, Gabriel Almaer et Éric Caravaca, décembre 2021.

[your-disobedient-servant]

— Voltaire and the Century of Light, A. Owen Aldridge

They were all exhausting.

[your-disobedient-servant]

Voltaire engaged [Thieriot], on Frederick’s behalf, to write a regular letter of literary gossip to Berlin. As this did entail a little work and trouble he did it badly, though he kept it up in a desultory way for years. He never failed to include anything disagreeable that appeared about Voltaire, keenly gathering up all the most damaging libels against his old friend and benefactor in order to post them off to Frederick. Voltaire was aware of this, and sometimes said how pleased he would be if Thieriot would include the good things that were written about him. They were generally forgotten. It was understood that Frederick would pay Thieriot for his trouble, not at once, but on his accession to the throne. He never did.

Voltaire in Love, Nancy Mitford

they were a bunch of absolute clowns and I love them

(I’d also like to note Voltaire boasted about Fritz’s letters and shared them around, cause look a king noticed me, but corrected his terrible spelling...which he praised in the replies)

[chaotic-history]

Found out today there's a portrait of Thieriot holding La Henriade... and it doesn't exist anymore because I can only assume that God specifically hates me.

[chaotic-history]

GOOD morning I am going batshit

It's a reference to ille qui primus iunxit me sibi abstulit meos amores; ille habeat secum servetque sepulchro from the Aeneid where Dido is saying she doesn't want to marry anyone else after her husband died

[chaotic-history]

I feel like we should make a distinction here between Thieriot possibly being gay and Desfontaines being a shithole child molester (according to the story V gives in 1769 of the trial).

[chaotic-history]

Is the only "evidence" for Thieriot being gay his lack of relationships with women (xcpt. mlle Sallé) or am I missing something here? Cause Davidson's brought it up twice (once to call his orientation 'ambiguous', and once to say he may have been gay) but never explained it.