Château de Voltaire

He was obliged to take me eight times the emetic, and instead of the cordial that usually gives in this disease, he made me drink two hundred quarts of lemonade.

This conduct, which may seem extraordinary, was the only one who could save my life any other way leads me to a sure death, and I’m sure most of those who died of the dreaded disease if they had been living treated like me.

But it is too much the doctor, I like people who, having won a considerable relief for a skilled lawyer, still some time for the language bar.
However, Sir, what consoled me most about my disease, it was the attention of my friends and inexpressible kindness which Mr and Mrs House honored.
I also enjoyed the sweetness of having with my friend, I want a man to be reckoned among the very small number of virtuous men who only knew of the friendship, which the rest of the world does the name, but Mr. Thiriot that the noise of my illness, had come in place of forty leagues to keep me, and since that did not leave a moment.

I was looking forward when I could steal the care that had me goodness, the more I do not hâtais of abuse too long.
Finally, I was ready to be transported to Paris on 1 December. ”

Fire Castle Properties from Voltaire

“Here, Sir, a moment of disastrous: Just me two cents from the castle, a part of the floor of the room where I was, everything falls ignited, the adjacent rooms, the apartments that were below the furniture, which they were decorated, everything was consumed by fire, the loss amounts to nearly one hundred thousand pounds, and without the aid of pumps being sent for to Paris, one of the most beautiful buildings in the kingdom would be completely destroyed. I hid this strange news to my arrival, I addition to my alarm clock, you can not imagine what was my despair, you know the generous care that Mr. House had taken me, I been dealt with him as his brother, and the price of so much kindness was the burning of his castle.

I could not conceive how the fire had been taken so suddenly in my room, where I had left a torch almost extinguished, I learned that the cause of this conflagration was beam passing exactly in the fireplace.

A flaw that was corrected in the structure of the buildings of today and even the frequent riots that arrived were obliged to have recourse to the King to defend the unfortunate way of building. The beam of which I speak was gradually engulfed by the warmth of the hearth which focused on her immediately and, by a singular destiny, which I certainly have not tasted the joy, the fire that was hidden for two days , a erupts time after my departure.
I was not the cause of this accident, but the opportunity I was unhappy and I had the same pain as if I had been guilty; fever took me immediately, and I assure you that in this time, I knew reluctance of Mr. Gervasi kept me living.

Mr and Mrs House received the new, more quietly than me, their generosity was as big as their loss and my pain. Mr. House with the height of its goodness in me himself by letters that make clear that excels in heart as in mind.

He was the care of console me, and it seemed to me was that it would have burned the castle, but his generosity is only used to make me feel even more strongly that the loss caused him, and I will take any my life my pain as well as my admiration for him. “