Moscovie, the former name for Rusaia with Siberia

Page 94. 11. 1, 2. le tiers, la septième partie. Thèse were the proportions fixed by Greek artists as the standard of beauty.

1. 7. inventé. The meaning is a little wider than in English, Cf. ' Souvent les savants ont raisonné sur ce que les hommes de génie ont inventé.' — Essai sur les mœïirs, c. cxlv.

1. 9. collège des jésuites. Cf. note to p. 116, 1. 30. Voltaire himself was educated at the Jesuit Collège Louis-le-Grand, in Paris.

1. 12. Biaise Pascal. Tins statement is actually made by Madame Périer, the sister of Pascal, who however was a much greater man, both as mathematician and philosopher, than Voltaire hère allows. He died in 1662 at the âge of thii'ty-nine.