[140] Ibid., I. pp. 67-70
[141] Ibid., I. p. 53.
[142] Ibid., I. p. 54.
[143] "L'esprit public au XVIII. siècle," p. 197. See also par. p. 200.
[144] As d'Argenson himself admits ("Essais," II. pp. 84,85).
[145] "Essais dans le goût de ceux de Montagne," (Montaigne) II. p. 84 (1785).
[146] Ibid., II. p. 86.
[147] These papers, after a chequered career, fell into the hands of the Abbé d'Olivet, Voltaire's correspondent, who published a selection of them as "Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Louis XIV., par le feu M. l'Abbé de Choisy, de l'Académie Française" ("Essais," II. p. 86).
[148] The essay in which he refers to it was written some years after the suppression of the Entresol.
[149] "Essais," II. p. 103 (1785). The meetings were held every Tuesday. The tone prevailing in the little coterie is suggested by the amusing criticism of Perrault's poem, "On the Creation of the World:" see "Essais," II. p. 105.