The fourth of four blogs on the relationship between Casanova and Voltaire. Overall, you do get the impression that in his account of their meeting at Les Délices Casanova had tried to give an honest and even-handed description of Voltaire, taking care to illustrate both his vices and virtues.  One of the aims of Histoire

The third of four blogs on the relationship between Casanova and Voltaire. At the age of thirty-five, Casanova had the opportunity to meet the great man.  In 1759 (the year, incidentally, that Voltaire had published Candide) Casanova was rich, a consequence of the Paris lottery he had helped to found, subsidies from the Marquise d’Urfé