The salon and English letters

by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

[115] Lettres à Walpole 3. 589, in criticism of his Speech on the Independence of Parliament, 11 February 1780.

[116] Ib. 2. 479; 481.

[117] ‘Je lui donne une compagnie que j’ai tâché de lui assortir; un M. du Buc, qui est aussi un grand esprit, le Comte de Broglio, l’Évêque de Mirepoix, Madame de Cambis, les Caraman, etc.’ Lettres à Walpole 2. 479; 24 February 1773.

[118] Printed in 1778.

[119] By J. A. H. de Guibert, Paris 1773.

[120] See Lettres à Walpole 2. 488. He had spoken of it to Walpole, and evidently preferred it to La Harpe’s tragedy—which did not please Madame du Deffand. The tragedy, which was widely known from the author’s reading of it in the salons, was acted in 1775.

[121] See Bisset, Life of Burke (1798), p. 158. Morley thinks it was in Mlle. de Lespinasse’s salon that Burke met Diderot.

[122] Letters 8. 252; 11 March 1773.

[123] Diderot.

[124] Morellet.