[18] Sainte Beuve, Causeries, ix. 136.

[19] Œuv., xix. 159. See also Salons, 1767, No, 118.

[20] Les Règnes de Claud et de Néron, § 79.

[21] Account of Diderot by Meister, printed in Grimm's Correspondence Littéraire xiii. 202-211.

[22] Grétry, quoted in Genin's Œuv. choisies de Diderot, 42.

[23] Marmontel, Mém., bk. vii. vol. ii. 312.

[24] Plato, Theages, 130, c.

[25] Art. Encyclopédie.

[26] See Barbier's Journal, iv. 166.

[27] The book was among those found in the possession of the unfortunate La Barre.