la chute de Foncquet. See above, p. 9 ff

1. 19. droits onéreux, burdensome dues. Titre onéreux is a law expression which means that a person gets into possession of property or rights on condition of paying certain dues.

1. 26. r hôpital général. This hospital known as 'La Salpêtrière,' the largest in Europe, is situated in the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in Paris.

1. 31. on voyage à présent environ... people now travel about... Note the idiomatic use of voyager as if it was an active verb though it really govevns pendant cr durant understood.

1. 32. à quelques endroits près, with the exception of a few places.

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1. 15. Vancienne économie. It was believed, till the days of Adam Smith, that a nation was rich, not in proportion to its capital of whatever kind, but only in proportion to the money it possessed. Hence ihe manifold laws and other arrangements having l'or their object to prevent money leaving the kingdom. The rest of the paragraph shows that Voltaire himself had not altogether grasped the new theory or freed himself from ancient préjudices.