[53] Cp. citations in Buckle, 3-vol. ed. ii, 18, note 42 (1-vol. ed. p. 296); Locky. Rationalism, i, 92–95; and Perrens, Les Libertins, p. 44. [↑]
[54] As to Henri IV see Perrens, p. 53. [↑]
[55] Not, as Owen states (French Skeptics, p. 569), the sister of Francis I, who died when Charron was eight years old, but the daughter of Henri II, and first wife of Henri of Navarre, afterwards Henri IV. [↑]
[56] Cp. Prof. Strowski, De Montaigne à Pascal, as cited, p. 170 sq., and the Discours Chrétien of Charron—an extract from a letter of 1589—published with the 1609 ed. of the Sagesse. [↑]
[57] Cp. Sainte-Beuve, as cited by Owen, p. 571, note, and Owen’s own words, p. 572. [↑]
[58] Owen, p. 571. Cp. pp. 573, 574. [↑]
[59] Bayle, art. Charron. “A brutal atheism” is the account of Charron’s doctrine given by the Jesuit Garasse. Cp. Perrens, p. 57. [↑]
[60] Owen (p. 570) comes to this conclusion after carefully collating the editions. Cp. p. 587, note. The whole of the alterations, including those proposed by President Jeannin, will be found set forth in the edition of 1607, and the reprints of that. One of the modified passages (first ed. p. 257; ed. 1609, p. 785) is the Montaignesque comment (noted by Prof. Strowski, p. 195) on the fashion in which men’s religion is determined by their place of birth. “C’est du Montaigne aggravé,” complains M. Strowski. And it is left unchanged in substance. [↑]
[61] “The first ... attempt made in a modern language to construct a system of morals without the aid of theology” (3-vol. ed. ii, 19; 1-vol. ed. p. 296). [↑]