808 Pench» National Inflitute. 
works Hie’has made particular ufe of the manufcripts in the 
\piticrtat Library, with the care of which he has been en- 
trated! As feveral of thefé manuferipts contain very curious 
paitifigs in’ miniature reprefenting real inftruments, furni- 
ture, games, dreffes and combats, Cit. Legrand propofes to 
bave accurate drawings made from them, in order that they 
aay be engraved and added to his Hiftory of the Arts. 
» Cit. Anquetil read a hiftorical fragment on Denmark, 
baing an abridgement of ' the Danith Hifdony from the royal 
law in 1660 down to-the prefent time. This royal law has 
been the particular fubje&t of a memoir by Cit. Defales, who 
has. chiefly applied himfelf to examine the part taken: by the 
three orders of the ftate in that famous act. . 
Cit. Defales, in another memoir, gave an analyfis of a 
bbok, printed in 1582, under the following title: Le Mzrouer 
des Frangois, contenant [état et maniement des affaires de 
France, 8c, Le tout mis en dialogue par Nicolas de Mentand. 
The ; real name of the author, according to Lammonaie, is 
Nicolas Barnaud. The choice of the {peakers in this work, 
which confifts of dialogues, is very fingular : they are Cham, 
Sem,, and Japhet, Nimrod, Tubal- We and other perfon- 
ages of the likekind, who. difcufs the affairs of France under 
Henry IL; and who. propofe to convert the bells: into 
money, to fupprefs the order of Malta, and to unite Belgium 
to France. 
~ Cit. Papon read the preliminary difcourfe to a hiftory he 
has undertaken of the French revolution. 
e “Cit: Reederer, in a work entitled L’ Art de favoir ce qu’or 
diten Politique et en Morale, &c. propofes to apply analyfis 
toa great number of queftions. He made the firft trial of 
his’method on that propofed by the clafs as the fubject of a 
prize, viz. What are the inftitutions beft calculated to lay. 
the foundation of morals in a nation? By examining and 
diftinguifhing the diferent acceptations of each of the words’ 
which compofe the above queftion, Cit. Reederer found,) by 
decompofition, that it is fufceptible of 120:different mean 
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