Note 272 — Chapter VIII
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To M. Jusserand we owe the appreciation on Milton penned in 1663 by Ambassador Cominges for his royal master, Louis xiv., Shakespeare en France sous l'ancien régime, p. 107. Two letters of Elie Bouhéreau, a physician of La Rochelle, asking, in 1672, for information on Milton, were published in Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, vol. ix. pp. 241-42. I pointed out a few years ago (Revue critique, 21st November 1904) Bayle's severe strictures on Milton in the Avis aux réfugiés, 1690. The appreciation of Cominges alone is quoted both by J. Telleen, Milton dans la littérature française, and J. G. Robertson, Milton's Fame on the Continent.