[63] Buckle, 3-vol. ed. ii, 21; 1-vol. ed. p. 297. [↑]
[64] E.g., the preface to the first edition, ad init. [↑]
[65] E.g., liv. ii, ch. xxviii of revised ed. (ed. 1609, p. 399). [↑]
[66] See the biog. pref. of Labitte to the Charpentier edition, p. xxv. The Satyre in its own turn freely charges atheism and incest on Leaguers; e.g., the Harangue de M. de Lyon, ed. cited, pp. 79, 86. This was by Rapin, whom Garasse particularly accuses of libertinage. See the Doctrine Curieuse, as cited, p. 124. [↑]
[67] It had to be four times reprinted in a few weeks; and the subsequent editions are innumerable. Ever since its issue it has been an anti-fanatical force in France. [↑]
[68] Cp. Ch. Read’s introd. to ed. 1886 of the Satyre, p. iii. (An exact reprint.) The Satyre anticipates (ed. Read, p. 281; ed. Labitte, p. 227) the modern saying that the worst peace is better than the best war. [↑]
[69] De Thou, T. v, liv. 98, p. 63, cited in ed. 1699 of the Satyre, p. 489. De Thou was one of the Catholics who loathed the savagery of the Church; and was accordingly branded by the pope as a heretic. Buckle, 1-vol. ed. pp. 291, 300, notes. [↑]
[70] M. Labitte, himself a Catholic, speaks of Garasse’s “forfanterie habituelle” and “ton d’insolence sincère qui déguise tant de mensonges” (Pref. cited, p. xxxi.). Prof. Strowski (p. 130) admits too that “Il ne faut pas trop s’attacher aux révélations sensationelles du père Garasse: les maximes qu’il prête aux beaux esprits, il les leur prête en effet, elles ne leur appartient pas toutes. La société secrète, la Confrérie des Bouteilles, ou il les dit engagés, est un invention de sa verve bouffonne.” But the Professor, with a “N’importe!”, forgives him, and trades on his matter. [↑]
[71] Owen, French Skeptics, p. 659. Cp. Lecky, Rationalism, i, 97, citing Maury, as to the resistance of libertins to the superstition about witchcraft. [↑]
[72] Doctrine Curieuse des Beaux Esprits, as cited, p. 208. This is one of the passages which fully explain the opinion of the orthodox of that age that Garasse “helped rather than hindered atheism” (Reimmann, Hist. Atheismi, 1725, p. 408). [↑]