Genre:

Miscellaneous, Reminiscences

Subjects:

Reason, Unbelief, Miracle, Religion

    Relates Jean F de Laharpe's account of a conversation which took place in 1788, during which '[m]any impious jests were launched against religion; one read passages from Voltaire's Pucelle, amidst universal plaudits [...] a third admired the revolution which Voltaire had effected in the empire of the Sciences—"That Great man," cried he,"gave the tone of his age; he is read as generally in every anti-chamber, as in the superb apartments of our illustrious men"' (457). Recounts predictions made by Jacques Cazotte concerning the French Revolution.