Universelle, _s.v._] [Footnote 98: Michelet, _Louis XV._, 258.

D'Aguesseau (1668-1751) has left one piece which ought to be extricated from the thirteen quartos of his works--his memoir of his father (_Oeuv._, xiii.) This is one of those records of solid and elevated character, which do more to refresh and invigorate the reader than a whole library of religious or ethical exhortations can do.

It has the loftiness, the refined austerity, the touching impressiveness of Tacitus's _Agricola_ or Condorcet's _Turgot_, together with a certain grave sweetness that was almost peculiar to the Jansenist school of the seventeenth century.] [Footnote 99: A short estimate of D'Alembert's principal scientific pieces, by M.Bertram, is to be found in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, for October 1865.] [Footnote 100: _Oeuv.

de D'Alembert_, iv.

367.] [Footnote 101: _Oeuv.