Henriade, cf. page 67, note

Page 111. — 1. Florian, an insipid sentimentalist, who, on the eve of the French Révolution, wrote very sugary pastoral taies, in which moves a humanity worthy of the golden âge ; some passable fables ; Gonzalve de Cordoue, a pseudo-historic romance, etc.

2. Paria, pariah or outcast. He figures in the Chaumière Lndienne, a charming philosophie taie. For the author cf. page 82, note 5.

3. Otaïtiens, savages of the French island Tahiti, the Paradise of the Pacific, whom Diderot (cf. page 112, note 1) introduces in a dialogue in which they reason about social institutions with thoroughly eighteenth century logic and éloquence.

4. Charles XII, king of Sweden (reigned 1 697-1 718). Voltaire wrote a brilliant historv of him.