[26] Œuvres de Turgot, Tom. VIII. p. 496.
[27] Vol. X. p. 107.
[28] Mémoires de Madame D'Épinay, Tom. III. p. 431.
[29] Galiani, Correspondance, Tom. II. p. 275, Lettre de 25 Juillet, 1778. Nobody saw America with a more prophetic eye than this inspired Pulcinello of Naples. As far back as the eighteenth of May, 1776, several weeks before the Declaration of Independence, he wrote,—"The epoch is come for the total fall of Europe and its transmigration to America. Do not buy your house in the Chaussée d'Antin, but at Philadelphia. The misfortune for me is that there are no abbeys in America." Tom. II. p. 203. See also Grimm, Correspondence, Tom. IX. p. 285 (1776).
[30] The dictionaries of Michaud and Didot concur in the date of her death; but there is reason to suppose that they are both mistaken.
[31] See Quérard, La France Littéraire, article La Rochefoucauld.
[32] Tom. I. p. 168.
[33] Oeuvres de Turgot, Tom. I. p. 416.
[34] Franklin, Works, by Sparks, Vol. V. p. 124.
[35] Oeuvres de Turgot, Tom. I. p. 414; Tom. IX. p. 416; Oeuvres de Condorcet, Tom. V. p. 162.