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VOLTAIRE: (1694-1778) - VOLTAIRE: (1694-1778) Francois-Marie Arouet. French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher. An excellent L.S, `Voltaire´, two pages , 4to, at the Chateau de Ferney, 27th August 1768, to Monsieur Le Bault, in French. Voltaire reports on wine, comparing two offered to him, and refers to an affair he has lost a lot and which he takes with philosophical conclusions, stating ` Je me flatte que vous aurez d´excellent vin cette année, et que vous voudrez bien que j´en boive cent bouteilles. Mr. le Président de Brosses me fait boire la lie du vin de la terre de Tourney; Si vous vendiez votre vin aussi cher qu´il vend le sien, vous feriez une fortune immense. S´il veut nous prendre pour arbitre, vous êtes un gourmet en fait de procédés, j´en passerai parce que vous ordonnerez. Au reste, si Mr. de Brosses ne veut pas me rendre justice, j´aime mieux souffrir que plaider; et quoique j´ai beaucoup perdu avec lui dans cette affaire, j´aime mieux mon rôle que le sien...´ (Translation: ” I flatter myself that you will have excellent wine this year, and that you will want me to drink a hundred bottles of it. Mr. President of Brosses makes me drink the dregs of the wine from the land of Tourney; If you sold your wine for as much as he sells his, you would make an immense fortune. If he wants to take us as arbiter, you are a gourmet in terms of procedures, I will pass because you order. Besides, if Mr. de Brosses does not want to do me justice, I would rather suffer than plead; and although I lost a lot with him in this affair, I like my role better than his...”) A cleanly written letter. With blank integral leaf. VG ​