"The Philosopher and the Prince perceive already that they are made for each other.

You and M.
Algarotti will say, FACIAMUS HIC TRIA TABERNACULA: as to me, I can only make DUO TABERNACULA,"-- profane Voltaire! "Without doubt I would be with you if I were not at Brussels; but my heart is with you all the same; and is the subject, all the same, of a King who is, formed to reign over every thinking and feeling being.

I do not despair that Madame du Chatelet will find herself somewhere on your route: it will be a scene in a fairy tale;--she will arrive with a SUFFICIENT REASON [as your Leibnitz says] and with MONADS.

She does not love you the less though she now believes the universe a PLENUM, and has renounced the notion of VOID.

Over her you have an ascendant which you will never lose.