[Footnote 4109: "I met in Paris the d'Alemberts, the Marmontels, the Baillys at the houses of duchesses, which was an immense advantage to all concerned. . . . When a man with us devotes himself to writing books he is considered as renouncing the society equally of those who govern as of those who laugh. . . Taking literary vanity into account the lives of your d'Alemberts and Baillys are as pleasant as those of your seigniors." (Stendhal, "Rome, Naples et Florence," 377, in a narrative by Col. Forsyth).] [Footnote 4110: "Entretien d'un philosophe avec la Maréchale--."] [Footnote 4111: The television audience today cannot threaten never again to invite the boring "philosopher" to dinner, but will zap away, a move that the system accurately senses. The rules that Taine describes are, alas, therefore once more valid. (SR.)] [Footnote 4112: The same process is observable in our day in the "Sophismes économiques" of Bastiat, the "Eloges historiques" of Flourens, and in "Le Progrès," by Edmond About.] [Footnote 4113: The "Portier de Chartreux." (An infamous pornographic book. (SR.))] [Footnote 4114: "Thérese Philosophe." There is a complete literature of this species.] [Footnote 4115: See the edition of M. Dauban in which the suppressed passages are restored.] [Footnote 4116: "Esprit des Lois," ch. XV. book V. (Reasons in favor of slavery). The "Defence of the Esprit des Lois," I. Reply to the second objection. II. Reply to the fourth objection.] [Footnote 4117: Letter 24 (on Louis XIV.)] [Footnote 4118: Letter 18 (on the purity and impurity of things). Letter 39 (proofs of the mission of Mohammed).] [Footnote 4119: Letters 75 and 118.] [Footnote 4120: Letters 98 (on the modern sciences), 46 (on a true system of worship), 11 and 14 (on the nature of justice).] [Footnote 4121: Cf "Micromégas," "L'homme aux quarantes écus," "Dialogues entre A, B, C," Dic. Philosophique," passim.--In verse, "Les systèmes," "La loi naturelle," "Le pour et le countre,", "Discours sur l'homme," etc.] [Footnote 4122: "Traité de métaphysique," chap. I. p.1 (on the peasantry).--"Lettres sur les Anglais," passim.--"Candide," passim.--"La Princesse de Babylone," ch. VII. VIII. IX. and XI.] [Footnote 4123: "Dict. Phil." articles, "Maladie," (Replies to the princess).--"Candide," at Madame de Parolignac. The sailor in the wreck. Narrative of Paquette.--The "Ingénu," the first chapters.] [Footnote 4124: "Candide," the last chapter. When there was no dispute going on, it was so wearisome that the old woman one day boldly said to him: "I should like to know which is worse to be ravished a hundred times by Negro pirates, to have one's rump gashed, or be switched by the Bulgarians, to be scourged or hung in an auto-da-fé, to be cut to pieces, to row in the galleys, to suffer any misery through which we have passed, or sit still and do nothing?"--"That is the great question," said Candide.]