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[ "Dict. Philosophique," the article "Ignorance."—"Les Oreilles du Comte de Chesterfied."—"L'homme au quarante écus," chap. VII. and XI.]
4128 ([return])
[ Bachaumont, III, 194. (The death of the Comte de Maugiron).]
4129 ([return])
[ "The novels of the younger Crébillon were in fashion. My father spoke with Madame de Puisieux on the ease with which licentious works were composed; he contended that it was only necessary to find an arousing idea as a peg to hang others on in which intellectual libertinism should be a substitute for taste. She challenged him to produce on of this kind. At the end of a fortnight he brought her 'Les bijoux indiscrets' and fifty louis." (Mémoires of Diderot, by his daughter).—"La Religieuse," has a similar origin, its object being to mystify M. de Croismart.]
4130 ([return])
[ "Le Rêve de d'Alembert.">[
4131 ([return])
[ "Le neveau de Rameau.">[