Note 77 — LETTER XLII.
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The Abbé de Vayrac was of a good Family in Guienne, and had all the Vivacity natural to that Province, which stood him in the stead of Wit; but it was of the abusive Kind. If ever an Author was a Plagiary, he was. He published a State of Spain, and a State of the Empire; which last brought him under an ignominious Sentence of the Court of Vienna. He had also composed a History of Portugal, which he could not obtain a Licence for Printing, because it appear’d that he had paid greater Compliments in it to the Portuguese, than to the French. He died in the Beginning of the Year 1733, as he returned from a Journey he had made to Holland.