After he left to greet other guests, Marie told me her Uncle was a writer and better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire, and that I would hear him addressed so this evening.It seems that he had criticized the King and gentry for their unearned rights and debasement of the peasantry and had earned their enmity. Progressive members of French society therefore addressed him as Voltaire in honor of his infamy.The evening was a revelation to me. While the food and drink circulated, as it would at an English party, the conversation was of an entirely different nature. Rather than crops and marriages, the topics were of a philosophical and literary bent with Monsuir Arouet leading many of them. His knowledge and wit were both of a kind I had never imagined I would meet in this life. He seemed to know everything and everyone. Precious Marie was able to follow the discourses as easily as any of the stronger sex. At points when I became lost, Marie would lean over and explain some fine point. His father on his right side was talking tariffs and sugar prices with one of the wealthiest men in the realm. Sir Robert Norton was a legend, a commercial genius whose net worth was rumoured to exceed three million pounds. Richard knew that his father held substantial interest in shipping and foreign trade, but he had never known him to be so well connected. Richard followed the sound maxim to watch, listen, and keep his mouth shut unless spoken to. He vaguely understood some of the issues due to the lessons Mr. Rawlings had given him.He looked at his grandfather. The old man looked back at him with a twinkle in the eye and smiled. Richard realised that the old man was even more clueless about the discussion. Apparently his father and Sir Robert had now settled an urgent matter regarding the taxation of American cotton, and Sir Robert explained in simple terms why the Lords should block a motion in the Commons initiated by British cotton planters. Lord Lambert listened attentively.
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