My illustrious doctor, please accept my compliments. I learned with great pleasure that, since the gout has been leaving you alone, you finally went to Versailles Tuesday. I hope that now, despite your aversion to compliments, you will not longer oppose the Academy's wish to deputize you as well. I expect that the Academy will decide today definitively, since we will be on recess for Easter. I do not see any reason why you would oppose their wishes on this matter. Regardless, write me a little reply about this so that I can proceed freely. You know how I would be upset to do anything which you find disagreeable.

If the nice weather continues tomorrow Saturday, we will go watch the igneous fluid experiments at nine-thirty or ten—it is no longer at the Big Boulder [Gros Caillou] but at the rue de Bourgogne, at the house of M. the Marquis de l'Aubespine, above the quarters of the regiment of the French Guard. I imagine and hope that we will have the honor of seeing you there; M. de Maillebois wants you to come, and he even plans to go dine Sunday at Mme. de Chaumont's, in the hopes of seeing you in the afternoon, either at her house or at yours if you are dining there. Adieu, my illustrious Doctor. No one can be more truly attached to you than I