Note 148 — BOOK VII[145]

Abbé Nicolas Lenglet-Dufresnoy (1674-1755), a man of very great learning but no critical taste. He was several times sent to the Bastille, under Louis XV., for the boldness of his writings, and died, at last, of an accident, having fallen into the fire before which he was reading. His chief works are De l'usage des romans, avec une bibliothèque des romans (1734), his Histoire justifiée contre les romans (1735), un Histoire de la philosophie hermétique (1742) and a Traité sur des apparitions (1751). His Histoire de Jeanne d'Arc was published in 1753, two years before his death.—T.