en sont plus heureux, en hère is pleonastic

1. 37. les fureurs des fanatiques des Cévennes. Voltaire forgets that the Cévenol Protestants whom he calls fanatics were fighting for the principle of religions liberty.

1. 38. autour d'un tombeaîi à Saint- Afédard, allusion to the extraordinary nervous épidémie which seized upon the convulsionnaires (Jansenist maniacs) who used to assemble at the Saint-Médard cemetery in Paris where was buried the deacon François de Paris (i7'27). The disorderly scènes which took place there reached such a pitch that the government interfered and the cemetery was closed : the next day the following distich affixed to the gâte caused much merriment :

"De par le Roi défense à Dieu De faire miracle en ce lieu."

1. 3. accrédités, credited, believed. Accréditer is also synonymous with faire reconnaître, to accredit, accréditer un ministre auprès dhm zoîivernement étranger.