Note 172 — Chapter IV · THE SATIRIC GROUP

Cf. T. Brown, Amusements, p. 163, post. P. Martino, op. cit. (p. 288, n. 3), gives 1705 as the date of the first edition of Dufresny. But D. Jouaust, in his Avertissement to Entretiens ou Amusements sérieux et comiques par Rivière-Dufresny, Paris, 1869, affirms that this work, whence “Montesquieu a pris l’idée de son immortelle satire,” appeared “pour la première fois en 1699,” and was reprinted. Pétit de Julleville: Histoire de la langue et de la littérature française des origines à 1900, Paris, 1898, Tome V., ... p. 596, also gives 1699 as the date of Dufresny’s work.