This left König no option but to resign from the Academy. Voltaire had at one time been a close friend of Maupertuis, but the two had fallen out years before this sad affair. Voltaire now used his great literary skill to rubbish Maupertuis's ideas, his voyage to Lapland, and he:
Voltaire ngayon na ginagamit ang kanyang mga dakilang akda kasanayan sa basura Maupertuis ng mga ideya, ang kanyang paglalakbay sa Lapland, at siya ay: