In this picture <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_the_Great" class="extiw" title="en:Frederick the Great">Frederick</a> is shown sitting with his back to the door at the farther end of the table and talking with Voltaire, who is the second figure on the kings right. At the left of the king sits Field Marshal Keith, a brave Scotchman who was one of Fredericks most intimate friends. In the fore-ground are La Mettrie and Marquis d'Argens, two French philosophers and critics. Count Rothenburg, and other persons celebrated in their day. Voltaire is replying to a remark of the young king, and the party is waiting with evident interest for a bon mot or for one of those delicate flatteries in which the great Frenchman so excelled. (Tappan, Ploetz e.a.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14758231376/">The worlds story</a>)// Third from the left, in the purple coat, is <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a>; next to him in the red uniform Christoph Ludwig von Stille, then the king <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_the_Great" class="extiw" title="w:Frederick the Great">Frederick the Great</a>. The other guests are <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Casanova" title="Giacomo Casanova">Giacomo Casanova</a>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean-Baptiste_Boyer_d%27Argens&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Jean-Baptiste Boyer d'Argens (page does not exist)">Jean-Baptiste Boyer d'Argens</a>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Julien_Offray_de_La_Mettrie" title="Julien Offray de La Mettrie">La Mettrie</a>, the Keiths (James Francis Edward Keith &amp; George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal), Friedrich Rudolf von Rothenburg, and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Algarotti" class="mw-redirect" title="Francesco Algarotti">Francesco Algarotti</a>.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Adolph_Menzel" class="extiw" title="w:en:Adolph Menzel"><span title="German artist (1815-1905)">Adolph von Menzel</span></a>
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from 1849 until 1850 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1849-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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