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329 Index Achilles, 285 Adeimantus, 292n4 Aesculapius, 228 Alembert, Jean le Rond d’, 292n7, 310n147 Alexander, 242 Allobrogians, xvii amour-propre, 30, 39, 40, 42, 106, 154, 176, 201, 266 Amy, Joseph, 133, 298n8 Anacreon, 242 Antony, 249 Archimedes, 8 Ariosto, 28, 292n9 Aristarchus, 25, 291n6 Aristippus, 183 Aristotle, 23, 85, 280 Arria, 245, 319n10 Arruntius, 113 Artemisia, 245, 319n10 Arty, Alexis-Armand, abbé d’, 321n1 Atreus, 286 Bacqueville, marquis de, 299n1 Bade, Augusta-Marie-Jeanne, princess of, 322n6 Balthasar, 302n2 Barclay [Barclai], Jean, 9, 289n26 Barrow, Isaac, 8, 289n16 Bayle [Baile], Pierre, 274, 325nn4 and 5 Bellegard, Jean-Baptiste Morvan, abbé de, 109, 297n25 Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette, 287–288n17 Berkeley, George, 289n26, 304n38 Bernardi, Bruno, 287–288n17 Bernex, 162–164 Blavet, Michel, 102, 297n15 Boileau, Nicolas, 9, 26, 289n26 Bordes, Charles, 9–13, 290n29, 292n3 Borelli, Alfonso, 151, 299n10 Boudet, Father Claude, 162 Bouhours, Father Dominique, 112–113, 297n34 BuVon, George-Louis Leclerc, 211, 306n60 Caccna Paetus, 319n1o Caesar, Julius, 112–14, 128, 232, 235, 249, 288n5, 316n35 Cahusac, Louis de, 291n4 Calvin, Jean, 183 Carter, Richard B., 296n3 Cassini, Jacques and Jean-Dominique, 4, 77, 85–87, 288–289n6, 296n4 Catiline conspiracy, 319n10 Cato of Utica, 4, 195, 242, 245, 288n5 Catrou, Father François, 320n3 Champagneux, Luc-Antoine-Donin de, 61 Charles VII, 249 Charles-Emmanuel III, 6, 289n12 Choiseul, Etienne-François, duc de, 60, 294n7 Christianity, 49, 95, 259–261 Cicero, 9, 23, 112–113, 128 Claudius, 319n10 Claville, Charles-François-Nicolas Lemaître de, 9, 289n25 Coindet, François, 29 Columbus, Christopher, 136, 147 commerce, xviii, 12, 18, 57, 102, 147 Condillac, Etienne Bonnot, abbé de, 187, 211, 306n61 conscience, 39, 54, 119, 160, 195–198, 254, 309n124 Conti, Louis-François de Bourbon, prince de, 64, 132, 295n5, 298nn6 and 5 Copernicus, Nicolas, 86, 141 Coriolanus, 349 Corneille, Pierre, 102, 208 Cornelia, 245, 319n10 Cotin, Charles, 326n6 courage, 49, 50, 179, 190, 246, 248, 266, 284, 286 Coypel, 102, 297n15 Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de, 291n4, 327n32 Croesus, 10, 51, 290n43 Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien, 28, 292n8 Deleyre [De Layre], Alexandre, 60, 294n8 Demosthenes, 219 Descartes, René, 8, 86, 183, 186, 189 Deschamps, 63–66, 295n5 Desmarais, François-Séraphin Regnier, abbé, 112, 297n34 Despréaux. See Boileau 330 Index Diderot, Denis, xvi, 60, 291nn1, 3, and 6, 292n10 and 4, 305n50 Dido, 245 Diogenes, 183, 219, 313n30 Don Quixote, 17 Doria, Andrea, 147, 299n5 Dubos, Jean-Baptiste, abbé, 285, 327n31 Duchesne, Nicholas-Bonaventure, 293n1 Dunois, Count de, 245 Dupin, Louise-Marie-Madeleine, 298n7, 321n1 Duras, duc de, 132 Duverney, Joseph Paris, 298n5132 Elisabeth, Queen of Hungary, 245, 319n10 Epictetus, 9, 17 Epicurus, 183 Euclid, 186 existence, feeling of, 279 fables, 81, 96, 202 Fabri [Fabre], Honoratus, 151, 300nn11, 14, and 15 Falconet, Camille, 130, 298n4 fanaticism, 149 fatherland, 8, 11, 17, 46, 48, 161, 163, 208, 235, 256 Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe, 81, 208, 289n20 Fizes, Nicolas, 86, 296n3 Folard [Follard], Jean-Charles, 114, 298n43 Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de, 4, 207–209, 289n7 freedom, 14, 21, 34, 49, 69, 85, 101, 103, 107, 166, 187, 188, 190, 200, 245, 246, 250, 263, 271 Fulvia, 245, 249, 319n10 Girardon, François, 102, 297n15 Glaucon, 292n4 God, gods, 6, 18–20, 54, 95, 136, 157–161, 167, 169, 171, 181, 190, 195, 197, 208, 219, 222, 226, 234, 251, 252–263, 278, 285, 290n43, 301n16, 302n2, 304n45, 306n71, 309n115, 314n55 Goldschmidt, Victor, 288n28 Gospel, 46, 47 Gouhier, Henri, 302n22 Gracchi brothers, 319n10 Grimm, Friedrich-Melchior, xx, 287n16 Grotius, Hugo, 114, 129 Hector, 285 Hell, 146 Helvétius, Claude-Adrien, xxiii, 204–212, 311n1, 326n9 Henri IV, 312n10 Henry VIII, 249 Heraclitus, 27 Hero, 299n9 Herodotus, 148, 322n2 Holbach [Holback], Paul-Henri Dietrich or Thiry, Baron d’, 60 Homer, 44, 58, 62, 136 Hôpital, marquis de l’, 8 Horace, 9, 264, 323n2 Houdetot, Elisabeth-Sophie-Françoise, countess d’. See Sophie Hume, David, 295n3 Huyghens, Christiaan, 4, 289n7 imagination, 43, 100, 101, 150, 169, 170, 174, 199, 200, 234, 270, 278, 279 injustice, 42, 107, 110, 194, 238, 246 instinct, 187, 197, 309n130 Ivernois, Isabelle d’, 279–280, 326 Jesus, 46, 47, 96, 257, 258, 261, 262, 322n12 Joan of Arc, 245 Judith, 242 justice, 6, 53, 60, 62, 70, 110, 157, 159, 172, 190, 192–194, 207, 211, 253, 260, 292n4, 294n4, 307n93 Kelly, Christopher, 288n19, 293n1, 301n1 Kepler, Johannes, 8 La Bruyère [La Bruiére], Jean de, 4, 109, 119, 288n4, 297n25...

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