← Table of contents
Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 1 of 2)

Note 162 — Chapter V · THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA. (continued 2)

Reading edition

Such, as that their feudal rights should be confirmed; that none but nobles should carry arms, or be eligible for the army; that lettres-de-cachet should continue; that the press should not be free; that the wine trade should not be free internally or for export; that breaking up wastes and enclosing commons should be prohibited; that the old arrangement of the militia should remain.—Arthur Young's France, ch. xxi. p. 607.

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings