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inform'd concerning another Fact, of which I shall take 

 Notice here, since I have an Opportunity of doing it. I 

 declare that the Book, which they mention, Page 323, of 

 their Third Volume, and which is attributed to me, as they 

 say, by the general Consent, is none of my Works. I had 

 some Share in the Edition that w^as made of that Ehap- 

 sody. . . ." 



M. Misson evidently thought that M. Bernard 

 had a grudge against him, for he adds : — 



" He of whom we have already spoken, who writes (or did 

 write not long ago) la suite des Nouvellcs cle la R^piiblique cles 

 Lettres (of which the Famous Mr. Bayle was the first contriver, 

 and who always has sought after every Opportunity of dis- 

 obliging, by a Miserable Return of Pevenge, a Person who 

 never gave liim the least Offence whatsoever .... he 

 affected to Advertise the Publick (or those that read his 

 Nouvellcs) that I was the Person whom Father Montfaucon 

 attack'd and contradicted ; for truly, this Father points at me 

 without mentioning my Name." 



Maxlmlllen Misson, who was a Huguenot by birth, 

 and a refugee In England subsequent to the revoca- 

 tion of the Edict of Nantes, was notable for Ills 

 extreme fanaticism and Protestant zeal. He Is best 

 known by his Nouveau Voyage d'ltalie, to which 

 Addison added his remarks. The Benedictine 

 monk, Pere Freschot, In his Remarques histori- 

 qiies (Cologne, 1705), had exposed with vigour 

 the rude jokes In which Misson had indulged 

 against the Romish Church, and, wa^ltes M. Weiss, 

 " Misson replied to him most bitterly in his preface 

 to the Voyage of Franyois Leguat, of which he was 

 the real editor, and not Gablllon, as President 

 Bouhler had supposed ; and Freschot replied to 



