The second was King Stanislaus, himself, who did not disdain to enter the lists with me.

The honor he did me, obliged me to change my manner in combating his opinions; I made use of a graver style, but not less nervous; and without failing in respect to the author, I completely refuted his work.

I knew a Jesuit, Father de Menou, had been concerned in it.

I depended on my judgment to distinguish what was written by the prince, from the production of the monk, and falling without mercy upon all the jesuitical phrases, I remarked, as I went along, an anachronism which I thought could come from nobody but the priest.

This composition, which, for what reason I knew not, has been less spoken of than any of my other writings, is the only one of its kind.