Excerpt from Select Eulogies of Members of the French Academy, Vol. 1 of 2: With Notes His connections, his writings, and efpe cially his difiinguilhed place among the Encyclopedias, fufiiciently declare him to have been of the number of thofe French literati, who were actively, though cau tioufly, employed in bringing about a change in the public opinion concerning civil and religious fubjeets. That this cbange was in many refpeets improvement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.