Note 380 — BOOK I[330] (continued 2)
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Pierre Édouard Lemontey (1762-1826), elected a member of the French Academy in 1817, author of an Essai sur l'établissement monarchique de Louis XIV. and of the Histoire de la régence, from which latter work, published after his death, the above extract is quoted.—T.