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PJ.760.023
20 Mar 1760:21 (902)
Extract of a letter from Geneva, dated Nov. 6. Two days
after the news arrived here of the taking of Quebec, Mons.
de Voltaire gave a grant entertainment at his house in the
country. In the evening, the company retired into a noble
gallery, at the end of which was erected an elegant theatre,
and a new piece called Le Patriot Insulaire was performed,
in which all the genius and fire of that celebrated poet
were exhausted in favour of the cause of liberty. M. de
Voltaire himself appeared in the principal character, and
drew tears from the whole audience. The scenes were
decorated with emblems of liberty, and over the stage was
this inscription in Latain and English. . . . After the play
the windows of the gallery flew open and presented a
spacious court finely illuminated and adorned with savage
trophies. In the middle of the court, a magnificient
firework was played off, accompanied with martial music . .
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