Note FOOTNOTES — Front matter
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[1] Who would have thought that these two champions of Infidelity, who were refused Christian burial, would one day, have assigned to their remains, the first church of France, and one of the first in Christendom, as their mausoleum. I wonder if Jean Jaques, in his prophetic visions, foresaw this?
[2] A nest of students has lately been detected in this employment.
[3] Racine told the Duc de Maine, who was anxious for a place at the old Academy, that there was no place vacant; but there was no member, he said, who would not be glad to die to accommodate him—“qui ne tint à grand honneur de mourir, pour lui en faire une”—and Racine said this seriously.