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A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2

Note 44 — Chapter XVII · FRENCH FREETHOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

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Pour et Contre, ou Épitre à Uranie. It was of course not printed till long afterwards. Diderot, writing his Promenade du Sceptique in 1747, says: “C’est, je crois, dans l’allée des fleurs [of his allegory] entre le champagne et le tokay, que l’épitre à Uranie prit naissance.” (L’Allée des Marronniers, ad init.) This seems unjust. ↑

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