Hundreds of the ever-renowned folios found their way into France, and were paid for by French money.

The booksellers addressed the minister, and easily persuaded him of the difference, according to the economic light of those days, between an exchange of money against paper, compared with an exchange of paper against paper.

The minister replied that this was true, but still that the gates of the kingdom would never be opened to a single copy of Bayle.

"The best thing to do," he said, "is to print it here." And the third edition of Bayle was printed in France, much to the contentment of the French printers, binders, and booksellers.
In 1761 the booksellers were afflicted by a new alarm.

Foreign pirates and domestic hawkers were doing them mischief enough.