[193] Petites Lettres sur de Grands Philosophes, ii.
[194] Œuv. de Palissot, i. 445. iv. 244.
[195] Le Satyrique, iii. p. 84. note.
[196] Métra, vi. 128.
[197] See for abundant matter of the same kind, M. Rocquain’s L’Esprit Révolutionnaire avant la Révolution, bk. x. pp. 382, 390, etc.
[198] Montesquieu more sensibly had given the Church not more than five hundred years to live. Let. Pers., 117. One hundred and fifty of them have already passed.
[199] Grimm died in 1807, Holbach in 1789, Catherine in 1796, and Frederick in 1786.
[200] See Œuv., xix. 317, 326.
[201] Œuv., vi. 442, where Diderot gives a sketch of this interesting man.
[202] “Is it not possible that the virtuous and moderate proposal to strangle the last Jesuit in the bowels of the last Jansenist might do something towards reconciling matters?”—Voltaire to Helvétius, May 11, 1761.