[24].  “Candide,” the last chapter.  When there was no dispute going on, it was so wearisome that the old woman one day boldly said to him:  “I should like to know which is worse to be ravished a hundred times by Negro pirates, to have one’s rump gashed, or be switched by the Bulgarians, to be scourged or hung in an auto-da-fé, to be cut to pieces, to row in the galleys, to suffer any misery through which we have passed, or sit still and do nothing?” — “That is the great question,” said Candide.

[25].  For example, in the lines addressed to the Princess Ulrique in the preface to “Alzire,” dedicated to Madame du Chatelet: 

      “Souvent un peu de verité,” etc.

[26] The scholar in the dialogue of “Le Mais,” (Jenny). — The canonization of Saint Cucufin. — Advice to brother Pediculuso. — The diatribe of Doctor Akakia. — Conversation of the emperor of China with brother Rigolo, etc.

[27].  “Dict.  Philosophique,” the article “Ignorance.” — “Les Oreilles du Comte de Chesterfied.” — “L’homme au quarante écus,” chap.  VII. and XI.

[28].  Bachaumont, III, 194. (The death of the Comte de Maugiron).

[29].  “The novels of the younger Crébillon were in fashion.  My father spoke with Madame de Puisieux on the ease with which licentious works were composed; he contended that it was only necessary to find an arousing idea as a peg to hang others on in which intellectual libertinism should be a substitute for taste.  She challenged him to produce on of this kind.  At the end of a fortnight he brought her ‘Les bijoux indiscrets’ and fifty louis.” (Mémoires of Diderot, by his daughter). — “La Religieuse,” has a similar origin, its object being to mystify M. de Croismart.

[30].  “Le Rêve de d’Alembert.”

[31].  “Le neveau de Rameau.”

[32].  The words of Diderot himself in relation to the “Rêve de d’Alembert.”

[33] One of the finest stanzas in “Souvenir” is almost literally transcribed (involuntarily, I suppose), from the dialogue on Otaheite (Tahiti).

[34].  “Nouvelle Héloise,” passim., and notably Julie’s extraordinary letter, second part, number 15. — “Émile,” the preceptor’s discourse to Émile and Sophie the morning after their marriage. — Letter of the comtesse de Boufflers to Gustavus III., published by Geffroy, ("Gustave III. et la cour de France").  “I entrust to Baron de Lederheim, though with reluctance, a book for you which has just been published, the infamous memoirs of Rousseau entitled ‘Confessions.’  They seem to me those of a common scullion and even lower than that, being dull throughout, whimsical and vicious in the most offensive manner.  I do not recur to my worship of him (for such it was) I shall never console myself for its having caused the death of that eminent man David Hume, who, to gratify me, undertook to entertain that filthy animal in England.”