Encyclopédie, cf. page 112, note

3. Mably, an eighteenth-century publicist, whose works are intensely hostile to the traditions of the old régime.

4. Raynal, an eighteenth-century philosophe, who advanced very libéral opinions on religion and government in his Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens da&s les deux Indes.

5. Bachaumont, a man of letters, who enjoyed considérable vogue in literary society about the middle of the eighteenth century. A vast collection of documents relating to the literary history of the period was published under his name, Mémoires de Bachaumont.