Note 201 — BOOK IV[176]

Guillaume Thomas François Raynal (1713-1796), editor of the Mercure and author of, among other works, the Histoire philosophique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les Deux-Indes (1770). This work is full of political and anti-religious declamations, and was placed upon the Index in consequence. He published in 1780 a new and still bolder edition, which was condemned in 1781.—T.