Note 699 — Chapter II · THE CONTEMPORARIES OF VOLTAIRE.
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M. Texte must have forgotten these remarkable passages, or perhaps not have known them, when in M. Petit de Julleville’s large History (vi. 754) he wrote that La Place’s version could only confirm readers in the idea that Shakespeare was a chaos of monstrosity and triviality. Evidently it had quite a different effect on Marmontel.