I gave him my manuscript, which I had copied by a laquais, belonging to M.de Francueil of the name of Dupont, who wrote very well.

I paid him ten crowns out of my own pocket, and these have never been reimbursed me.

Diderot had promised me a retribution on the part of the booksellers, of which he has never since spoken to me nor I to him.
This undertaking of the 'Encyclopedie' was interrupted by his imprisonment.

The 'Pensees Philosophiquiest' drew upon him some temporary inconvenience which had no disagreeable consequences.

He did not come off so easily on account of the 'Lettre sur les Aveugles', -- [Letter concerning blind persons.]--in which there was nothing reprehensible, but some personal attacks with which Madam du Pre St.
Maur, and M.de Raumur were displeased: for this he was confined in the dungeon of Vincennes.