[253] _Mœurs_, like ἤθη is untranslatable by any single English word. The full title is _Essai sur les Mœurs et l’Esprit des Nations, et sur les principaux faits de l’Histoire depuís Charlemagne jusqu’ à Louis XIII._ [254] C. vi. _Œuvres_, xx. p. 396. [255] C. xi. _Œuvres_, xx. p. 455. [256] See on this interesting subject Finlay’s _Greece under the Romans_ (B.C. 146-A.D. 716), pp. 156, 157. [257] _Childe Harold_, iii. 106 and 107. [258] C. ix. _Œuvres_, xx. p. 445. [259] C. lviii. _Œuvres_, xxi. pp. 328-341. [260] Quelques petites Hardiesses, etc. _Œuvres_, xxxvi. p. 445. [261] C. xlii. _Œuvres_, xxi. p. 143. [262] Notes sur le Désastre de Lisbonne. _Œuvres_, xv. p. 57. [263] He ridiculed some of these in one of his most humane and otherwise excellent pieces, L’Homme aux Quarante Ecus (1767). _Œuv._ lix. p. 395. [264] _The Republic_, 1577. _Esprit des Lois_, 1748. [265] _Œuv._ lxvii. p. 94. [266] A drawing of Voltaire’s château at Ferney is given in Blancheton’s _Vues Pittoresques des Châteaux de France_ (Paris, 1826), Part II. The château is still standing, and the prospect from the terrace repays a visit, apart from the interest of association. The church is now a receptacle for wine-casks. [267] The reader who is curious as to the most indifferent details, will find what he seeks in a singular monument of painstaking spleen, entitled _Ménage et Finances de Voltaire_, by M. Nicolardot (Paris, 1854). [268] Corr. 1761. _Œuv._ lxvii. p. 190. [269] _Corr. Lit._ vi. p. 272; v. p. 385. [270] Grimm, _Corr. Lit._ v. p. 393. [271] Corr. 1761. _Œuv._ lxxv. p. 158. [272] Born 1710; lost her first husband 1744; married one Vivier in 1779; died 1790. [273] Corr. 1770. _Œuv._ lxx. p. 175. [274] Corr. 1771-72. _Œuv._ lxxiv. pp. 733 and 737. [275] Corr. 1772. _Œuvres_, lxxi. p. 496. The marked copy is still in existence, along with the rest of Voltaire’s books, at St. Petersburg; see Lavergne’s _Economistes du 18ième Siècle_, p. 285. [276] Corr. 1761. _Œuvres_, lxvii. p. 166. [277] _Œuvres_, lxxv. pp. 64, 69, etc. [278] Corr. 1770. _Œuvres_, lxxi, p. 18. [279] _Œuvres de Turgot_, ii. pp. 814-825. [280] _Ib._ p. 824. [281] _Œuvres_, lxxv. p. 331. [282] _Œuvres_, lxxv. p. 33. [283] _Œuvres de Condorcet_, iv. pp. 33, 34, and vi. pp. 187-189. [284] Corr. 1768. _Œuvres_, lxxv. p. 426. [285] Corr. 1768. _Œuvres_, lxx. pp. 198-199. [286] Corr. 1769. _Œuvres_, lxx. pp. 434, 435; lxxv. p. 452. Grimm’s _Corr. Lit._ vi. p. 231. [287] Condorcet, _Vie de Voltaire_, p. 126. [288] Corr. _Œuvres_, lxxi. pp. 25, 27, 30, etc. [289] Grimm, _Corr. Lit._ vi. p. 358. [290] Grimm, _Corr. Lit._ vi. p. 358. [291] _Confessions_, pt. i. liv. v. Date of 1736. [292] _Œuvres_, lxxv. p. 182. [293] Corr. 1762. _Œuvres_, lxxv. p. 188. [294] _Œuvres_, lxvii. p. 432. [295] Condorcet, p. 170. [296] Lamartine’s _Girondins_, iv. v.