[115] Decline and Fall, c. 52, note 83.
[116] Œuvres, vols. x. and xi.
[117] Desnoiresterres, p. 342.
[118] Œuvres, ix. p. 382.
[119] Soirées, 4ième entretien.
[120] Œuvres, v. p. 189.
[121] Strauss, p. 79.
[122] Œuvres, xviii. p. 250.
[123] Commenced soon after 1730; published surreptitiously in 1755; published by Voltaire himself in 1762.
[124] Vie de Voltaire, p. 89.