It was in the "eulogium of the officers who fell in the campaign of 1741" that he touchingly called attention to the memory of Vauvenargues.

He, born at Aix on the 6th of August, 1715, died of his wounds, at Paris, in 1747.

Poor and proud, resigning himself with a sigh to idleness and obscurity, the young officer had written merely to relieve his mind.

His friends had constrained him to publish a little book, one only, the _Introduction de la connaissance de l'esprit humain, suivie de reflexions et de maximes_.

Its success justified their affectionate hopes; delicate minds took keen delight in the first essays of Vauvenargues.