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Published on: 2012-05-16
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...and appeared in reality everything which his works and my imagination had represented. In the first few days that we spent at Geneva we made acquaintance also with M. Hubert, " L'Oiseleur," as he was usually called, from his love of hawking. He was a person of considerable genius, possessing a thousand agreeable talents: he was a poet, musician, and painter; and to infinite sensibility and gaiety of manners added all the charms of perfect good breeding. Voltaire was very much afraid of him, as Hubert well knew his peculiarities, and represented circumstances on canvas in which Voltaire recognised several of his own weaknesses of character. They used to be frequent combatants at chess. Voltaire was almost always the loser, and on those occasions he never failed to be put out of humour. Hubert had a little favourite dog, with which he used to divert himself at the other's expense by making him snap at a piece of cheese, which, after two or three twists in his mouth, was turned out so exact a likeness of Voltaire, that one would have said it was a miniature copy of the famous bust of Pigal. Our evenings were frequently spent on the beautiful lake of Geneva. M. Hubert, who was always of our party, directed these little expeditions, and had the gallantry to fix the Russian flag on the mast of the vessel. He was enchanted with the plaintive simplicity of our national airs, which Mlle. Kamensky and I used to sing to him, and which instantly became his own, from the astonishing quickness of his ear. It was with unfeigned regret that we quitted Geneva and the many friends it contained. Amongst these was the family of a Mons.Welselovsky, a Russian, who having been employed by Peter the First at Vienna, and suddenly ordered to return to Petersb...
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