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• 1 media/letter_thumbnail_generic.jpeg term 2016-12-16T22:50:40-08:00 Voltaire to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert - 1774 June 4 6 See a translation of this letter. plain 2017-10-03T13:15:09-07:00 46.252076,6.0973562 1774 June 4 From M. de Voltaire
  June 1774
   
  1                      Mr de Chambon whom I do not know, whom
  2          I do not want to know until he has your endorsement,
  3          has sent two copies of his small panegyric to Raton 
  4          He says that he made the same dispatch to Bertrand. Yet
  5          only Bertrand is able to judge this work.
  6                      Raton says that he is too old, too sick, too
  7          little knowledgeable of transcendental geometry, to
  8          dare express his judgment on such
  9          thorny calculations. If Bertrand wants to send to him the unknown factors
  10        and the equations Raton will be much obliged to him. These
  11        are real brainteasers. The brain of the old patient
  12        is too weak to take pains to do such research.
  13        He tenderly embraces Bertrand with his two
  14        front paws, and he will remain as long he can
  15        on his two hind paws.
  J.[1]
   

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  [1] This last initial is difficult to determine, since it does not look like “V” even though it should be. It may be the initial of the copyist.