Nor was it of the sentimental type proper for fine ladies.

One of his friends had an aversion for women with child.

"What monstrous sentiment!" Diderot wrote; "for my part, that condition has always touched me.

I cannot see a woman of the common people so, without a tender commiseration."[8] And Diderot had delicacy and respect in his pity.

He tells a story in one of his letters of a poor woman who had suffered some wrong from a priest; she had not money enough to resort to law, until a friend of Diderot took her part.