698 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
aume si V. M. Ten juge digne. Parce qu’elle contiendra mes 
derniers desirs a cet egard, et qu’en vous la laissant, je consigne 
a Y. M. tout ce que lui puis leguer de meilleur, quand il plaira 
a Dieu m’appeller de eette vie.” The book is devoted to a re¬ 
view of the conditions of church and state in the earliest seven¬ 
teenth century and to suggestions of measures to be adopted 
for the advancement of the interests of each. 
Le Testament de Colbert (1693)/ is a mediocre work by 
sieur Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras, who, according to Vol¬ 
taire, flooded Europe with impostures. 1 2 The same author is 
responsible for the Testament of Louvois (3695). Le Detail 
de la France (1695) by Bois-Guillebert was reproduced by the 
author under the title Le Testament 'politique de M. Vauban. 
There is also Le Testament politique de Charles V, duce 
de Lorraine et de Bar en faveur du roi de Hongerie, written in 
1696 by Henry Straatman, counsellor of the emperor, and 
edited by l’abbe de Chevremont. In Italian there is a ^Testa¬ 
ment politico di un accademico fiorentino (Leone Pascoli pern- 
gino) in cui con nuovi e ben fondati principjsi fanno varj e 
diver si progetti per istabulire un ben regolato commercio nello 
State della Chiesa. Col. per gli eredi di corn, di Egemond 
(Perugia, Constantini) 1783, in-4.” Maubert of Gouvest pro¬ 
duced a. Testament politique de Walpole 3 (died 1745) and a 
Testament de Alberoni . 4 The latter is interesting in that it 
contains besides advice as to internal political arrangements 
some actual bequests : “Le cardinal donne et legue la Boheme 
a Felecteur de Saxe; le duche de Zell au due de Cumberland: 
le Tyrol et la Carinthie dTelecteur de Baviere; le Brisgau, avec 
les villes forestieres, au due des Deux-Ponts; et le duche des 
Deux-Ponts a Felecteur palatin.” The Testament politique et 
■moral du Prince Balcoczi (a la Haye, 1751) is a combination 
of political and moral instruction. 
1 La Haye, 1693. 
2 Voltaire, ed. Gamier Freres, XIV, 57. 
s Nouveau Larousse, s. v. Testament. 
4 Le Testament politique du cardinal Alberoni, 1753, in-12. Com¬ 
posed by Durey de Morsan, revised and published by Maubert de Gou¬ 
vest Cf. Voltaire XXIV, 11. 
