Note 965 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
Sismondi (xxix. p. 20), Lacretelle (XVIIIe Siècle, vol. ii. p. 110), and Tocqueville (Règne de Louis XV, vol. ii. p. 103), give the date 1749; so that 1747, in Biog. Univ. vol. xxvi. p. 46, is apparently a misprint.