Note 23 — THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN.

Three friends of tolerance were Voltaire, D’Argenson and Turgot. Voltaire in his Discourse Historique et Critique placed as an introduction to the tragedy Les Guebres (Oeuvres, by M. Beuchet, ix, 26, Paris, 1831), and in his Traité sur la tolérance, written upon the death of Jean Calas, 1763 (Oeuvres, ix, 141 and 243 et seq.), pleads for tolerance. For d’Argenson’s views on tolérance in 1744, see Rocquain, L’ésprit révolutionnaire, 116 and 138, and d’Argenson, Mémoires, v, 328 et seq. Turgot in a letter to an ecclesiastic, his schoolmate at the Sorbonne, expressed himself in 1753 in favor of tolerance; another letter of the year following was of like import. His Conciliateur was printed about the same time. Oeuvres, ii, 353 et seq., Paris, 1808. June, 1755, he presented a Memoir to the king on “Toleration, or Religious Equality.” Life and Writings of Turgot, by W. Walker Stephens, 256 et seq.