A propos de la Mort de César

2. Prévost ne fut jamais un de ces obligés, bien que, dans un moment de grande gêne, cinq ans après, il fît appel, mais inutilement, à la bourse de Voltaire. En somme, c'est plutôt celui-ci qui eut des obligations à Prévost.

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Prévost à Thieriot.

De l'abbaye de la Croix-Saint-Leufroy, novembre 1735.

« I receiv'd your Magazinas, Jacob's works etc. and every thing shall be kept in good order to return in your hands when F m at Paris. But why don't you send what you spoke to me of, concerning Mr. Voltaire and cardinal Alberoni's letter? You may be sure I shall make the best use of it which is in my power. Perhaps you are angry at me, for not having spoken of Julius Coesar's death, and the wrong édition of it; but Dear Sir if you remember tliat the same week I receiv'd your letter, your very same account of M. Voltaire's Tragedy was publish'd in the Observations upon the modem Writings, by no means you can't take ill that I would not be another's Echo, and humbly repeat what M. Desfontaines liad told before me. There is no occasion whercin l'm not ready to déclare myself one of Mr. Voltaire's admirers, though l'm told lately he bas not spoke of me in the best terms of the world ; but my heart if not my merit, is above thèse little trifles. l'm quite unkown to Mr. Voltaire, and l'm^as bold as to say that no body who knows both m y pcrson and my way of thinking and living can hâte or contemn me.

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