History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE QUARREL.
Voltaire and the Jew.--Letter from Frederick to D’Arget.-- Letter to Wilhelmina.--Caustic Letters to Voltaire.--Partial Reconciliation.--Frederick’s brilliant Conversational Powers.-- His Neglect of his Wife.--All Females excluded from his Court.-- Maupertuis and the Academy.--Voltaire’s Malignity.--Frederick’s Anger.--Correspondence between Voltaire and Maupertuis.--Menaces of War.--Catt and the King 387