Note 11 — CH. V. LANGLOIS & CH. SEIGNOBOS

He has not always shown even good sense, for, in the Cours d'études historiques (vii. p. 105), where he treats of a work, De l'histoire, published in 1670 by Père Le Moyne, a feeble production, to say the least, bearing evident traces of senility, he expresses himself as follows: "I cannot adopt all the maxims and precepts contained in this treatise; but I believe that, after that of Lucian, it is the best we have yet seen, and I greatly doubt whether any of those whose acquaintance we have still to make has risen to the same height of philosophy and originality." Père H. Chérot has given a sounder estimate of the treatise De l'histoire in his Étude sur la vie et les œuvres du P. Le Moyne (Paris, 1887, 8vo), pp. 406 sqq.