[1] Prof. Strowski, who is concerned to prove that the freethinkers of the period were mostly men-about-town, claims Patin as a Frondeur (De Montaigne à Pascal, p. 215). But Patin’s attitude in this matter was determined by his detestation of Mazarin, whom he regarded as an arch-scoundrel. Naudé’s defence of the Massacre is forensic. [↑]
[2] Lettres de Gui Patin, No. 188, édit. Reveillé-Parise, 1846, i, 364. [↑]
[3] Cp. Reveillé-Parise, as cited, Notice sur Gui Patin, pp. xxiii-xxvii, and Bayle, art. Patin. [↑]
[4] See the notices of him in Owen’s Skeptics of the French Renaissance; and in Sainte-Beuve. Port Royal, iii, 180, etc. [↑]
[5] De la Vertu des Payens, in t. v. of the 12mo ed. of Œuvres, 1669. [↑]
[6] Hanotaux, Hist. du Cardinal de Richelieu, 1893, i, pref. p. 7. [↑]
[7] Cp. Buckle, ch. viii, 1-vol. ed. pp. 305–10, 325–28. [↑]
[8] See the good criticism of M. Hanotaux in Perrens, Les Libertins en France au xvii. siècle, p. 95 sq. [↑]
[9] Œuvres, ed. 1669, v, 4 sq. Bellarmin, as Le Vayer shows, had similarly explained away Augustine. But the doctrine that heathen virtue was not true virtue had remained orthodox. [↑]