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effets mechaniques de la vapeur ; enfin qu il n avait jamais recu que 

 de bons offices de la part de Richelieu puisque dans la dedicase de 

 son livre, La practique et demonstration des horloges il exprime sa 

 reconnaisance pour les bontes du cardinal. Mais le public n y 

 regarde pas de si pres, et bien de gens ne renoncent pas sans douleur 

 a la bonne fortune historique d unhomme de genie mourant a 1 hopi- 

 tal. Tin sujet si bien trouve revenait de droit aux ouvres de 1 imagi 

 nation et de 1 art. On a vu, a 1 une des expositions du Louvre, un 

 tableau de 1 un de nos peintres, M. Lecurieux, dans lequel Salomon 

 de Caus, enferme a Bicetre, est represente les yeux caves et la barbe 

 herissee, tendant les mains, a travers les barreux de sa prison, au 

 couple brillant de Marion Delorme et du marquis. La lithographic 

 et la gravure ont consacre a 1 envi ce prejuge historique, le theatre * 

 et de roman 1 ont exploite, de telle sorte que 1 architecte normand 

 tient aujourd hui sa place a cote de Galilee et de Christophe Colomb 

 sur la liste des hommes de genie persecutes et meconnus. Jusques 

 a quand cette legende de fabrication moderne usurpera-t-elle le titre 

 de fait historique ?&quot; [Pages 32, 33.] 



5. A Scotch view of the &quot; Century&quot; In Black wood s Magazine, 

 Vol. 6, 1820, p. 655, a correspondent, under the signature of J. C., 

 in an article dated Manchester, February 8, 1820, &quot; On Sir Thomas 

 TJrquhart s Jewell,&quot; declares : &quot; I have good reason [?] to believe, Sir 

 Thomas was the real author of that singular production, A century 

 of names and scantlings of inventions, the credit or discredit of 

 which was dishonestly [?] assumed by the Marquis of &quot;Worcester.&quot; 



Mr. Hugh Miller, in his &quot; Scenes and Legends of the North of Scot 

 land,&quot; 12mo. Edin. 1835, has enlarged on this speculative view with 

 amusing fervour. He says : * If intrinsic evidence be allowed to 

 weigh anything, either this little tract [the &quot; Century&quot;] was written 

 by Sir Thomas ; or, what is much less probable, the world, nay, the 

 same age and island, have produced two Sir Thomases. Some little 

 weight, too, may be attached to the fact, that many of his manu 

 scripts were lost in the city of Worcester, near which place, judging 

 from the Title, it is probable the Marquis resided [!] ; and that the 

 &quot; Century of Names&quot; was not published until 1663, two years after 

 death had disarmed poor Sir Thomas of his sword and his pen, and 

 rendered him insensible to both his country s honour and his own. 

 If in reality the author of this piece, he must le reffarded, it is said, as 

 the prime inventor of the steam engine. &quot; 



* Voir le dramc institule Salomon Je Caus, joue a 1 Ambigu en 1857. 



