[52] Cited by Schlosser, Hist. of the Eighteenth Century, Eng. tr. i, 146–7. [↑]
[53] Traité de la verité de la religion chrétienne, tiré en partie du latin de M. J. Alphonse Turrettin, professeur ... en l’académie de Génève, par M. J. Vernet, professeur de belles-lettres en la même Académie. Revue et corrigé par un Théologien Catholique. 1e éd. Génève, 1730. Rep. in 2 tom. 1753. Ecclesiastical approbation given 15 janv. 1749; privilège, juillet, 1751. [↑]
[54] Dom Remi Desmonts, according to Barbier. [↑]
[55] “Par Panage” (=Toussaint?). Rep. 1755 and 1767 (Berlin). [↑]
[56] Work cited, ed. 1755, p. 252. [↑]
[57] A glimpse of old Paris before or about 1750 is afforded by Fontenelle’s remark that the prevailing diseases might be known from the affiches. At every street corner were to be seen two, of which one advertised a Traité sur l’incrédulité. (Grimm, Corr. litt. iii, 373.) [↑]
[58] Thus Duruy had said in his Histoire de France (1st ed. 1852) that in the work of the Jansenists of Port Royal “l’esprit d’opposition politique se cacha sous l’opposition religieuse” (ed. 1880, ii, 298). [↑]
[59] The case has been thus correctly put by M. Rocquain, who, however, decides that “de religieuse qu’elle était, l’opposition devient politique” as early as about 1724–1733. L’Esprit révolutionnaire avant la révolution, 1878; table des matières, liv. 2e. Duruy (last note) puts the tendency still earlier. [↑]
[60] “Cette hardiesse étonna Voltaire, et excita son émulation” (ed. cited, p. 118). [↑]
[61] Avertissement des éditeurs, in Basle ed. of 1792, vol. xlv, p. 92. [↑]