The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-31
VOltaire and His Early Love.

The browning event in Voltaire's life
as a lover was the sequel to the romance
of AurOre de Livry. More than sixty
years had elapsed since he had seen her.
She was now over 80 years of age, a
widow, and the only one of his loves
still living. He wrote to her, asking if
she would receive him. The reply
being in the affirmative, he went. A
Suisse In uniform, as gorgeous as upon
the former occasion when VoltaiTe was
refused admittance, now led him
through the magnificent entrance of the
mansion, and ushered him, breathless
with fatigue and emotion, into the pres
ence of the marquis de Gouvernet. For
a moment they stood before each other
when VOltaire lifted the hand In his to
his lips and kissed it. "Ah, mon ami
she said with a sad smile, ''what have
we done with our twenty years % cab,
how true - sighed Voltaire; lone dies
every twenty years. Happy are those
no have lived them But in the ret
respect neither you nor I, marquise,
has cause to commiserate ourselves.
My life has been a romance easy to
read; but yours, what an eloquent and
desperate struggle You took up the
war of the Tt ans" 4" Alas" she re-
piled, " I would gladly give my mar
sion, my farms of Beauce and Bretagny,
my diamonds and my carriage, with my
deaf old Suisse included, to live one
more hour of my beautiful life" "And
[, " responded Voltaire; " I would give
my tragedies and nay epic poem, my
histories and my stories, all my past
glory, all my rights to live in posterity,
with all my fauteuil in the academy
included, to take from your lip only one
Of the kisses of those days, They then
sat down to talk over their six weeks
dream life that lay so far back IN the
past. but which shone through all the
mist of more than half a century.
Youth, beauty and passion were dead;
only the past was left to them. What
a moment in their lives !-GalGry.
EDITORIAL notices are so common that
it is almost imp ssible for an editor to
express his honest opinion of the merits
Of any article without being suspected
of interested motives. This fact, how
ever, shall not deter us fl ON saying what
we think of a new addition to the Ma
terra Medica to which our attention has
been recently dire cted. We refer to DR..
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a remedy which is making its way into
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tive recommendation of containing nei-
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