Note 124 — Chapter XVII · FRENCH FREETHOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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Voltaire’s various stratagems to secure election are not to his credit. See Paul Mesnard, Histoire de l’académie française, 1857, pp. 68–74. But even Montesquieu is said to have resorted to some questionable devices for the same end. Id. p. 62. ↑