The salon and English letters

by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

[73] An Englishman in Paris wrote to the Earl Marshall of Scotland, ‘L’on regarde le bonheur de l’y voir comme un des plus doux fruits de la paix.’ Letters to Hume, p. 63; 4 January 1764.

[74] Burton’s Hume 2. 181.

[75] Du Deffand’s Lettres à Walpole 3. 591.

[76] Lettres à Walpole 1. 232; 5 March 1767, et passim.

[77] See Burton’s Life of Hume; Letters addressed to Hume (1849); Private Correspondence of Hume (1820); Letters, ed. T. Murray (1841); and Exposé succinct de la Contestation ... entre M. Hume et M. Rousseau (1766). The simplest narratives for the general reader are in Ségur’s Julie de Lespinasse, chapter 7, and in Collins’s Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau in England, pp. 182 ff.

[78] See Garat, Mémoires Historiques 2. 158.

[79] See Letters 6. 396; 12 January 1766, for the complete letter. A second letter, in the character of Émile, is printed in Madame du Deffand’s Lettres à Walpole 1. 3 n. Madame du Deffand persuaded Walpole not to let it become public.

[80] See above, p. 54 n., and volume one of her Lettres à Walpole, passim.

[81] Burton’s Life of Hume 2. 513.

[82] Lettres à Walpole 3. 253.