Note 57 — Chapter XVII · FRENCH FREETHOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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A glimpse of old Paris before or about 1750 is afforded by Fontenelle’s remark that the prevailing diseases might be known from the affiches. At every street corner were to be seen two, of which one advertised a Traité sur l’incrédulité. (Grimm, Corr. litt. iii, 373.) ↑