Note 59 — Chapter XVII · FRENCH FREETHOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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The case has been thus correctly put by M. Rocquain, who, however, decides that “de religieuse qu’elle était, l’opposition devient politique” as early as about 1724–1733. L’Esprit révolutionnaire avant la révolution, 1878; table des matières, liv. 2e. Duruy (last note) puts the tendency still earlier. ↑