Her parents were Protestants, and as she was a convert, she enjoyed a pension of some eight pounds a year.

That did not prevent her from one day indulging in some too sprightly sallies, as the host was carried along the street.

For this she was put into prison, and that is our last glimpse of the light creature.[227] Men knew how to be as wrong-headed and as graceless as women.

We have already mentioned the name of Landois in connection with Diderot's article on Liberty.

Landois seems to have been a marvel of unreasonableness, but he was a needy man of letters, and that was enough to make Diderot ready to bear with him and to succour him.