Note 236 — Chapter IV · DIDEROT AND THE FRENCH TRANSITION.

I must find room, if only in a note, for the unfortunate Auger, who succeeded Suard as universal provider of éloges and Introductions in the classic sense, who served as victim to one of Daudet’s most ignoble transcripts of reality in L’Immortel, and whose ton sec et rogue Sainte-Beuve has somewhere despatched and impaled for ever in one of his really immortal phrases.