Note 598 — XI. OF MANKIND.
Henri Van Laun translation
Some commentators think that the Marshal de Villeroy (see page 54, note 151) is meant by Timon, but this cannot be, as the Marshal was rather ostentatious, and not at all a misanthrope. Perhaps our author thought of giving another version of Molièreʼs Alceste, as later on he gives another of Tartuffe, in his portrait of Onuphre, in the chapter “Of Fashion,” page 395, § 24.