On the plate of M. Jules, Baron de St. Genois, is the motto:
“Bon livre d’ennui delivre.”
The following cynical epigram,
“L’homme a dit: ‘Faisons Dieu, qu’il soit à notre image.’
Dieu fut! et l’ouvrier adora son image,”
was placed on his book-plate by the philosophical atheist Sylvain Maréchal, who wrote a work entitled “Fragmens d’un poeme moral sur Dieu,” dated 1781.
David Köning remarks:
“L’Art c’est la vie.
La Nature c’est la mort.”
Whilst Patrice Salin fairly gives himself away:
“Tel que je suis, prends moi.”