Chaumette apostrophised the assailant of Rousseau and Diderot with rude energy, but did not send him to the guillotine.

In this the practical disciple only imitated the magnanimity of his theoretical masters.

Rousseau had declined an opportunity of punishing Palissot's impertinences, and Diderot took no worse vengeance upon him than by making an occasional reference of contempt to him in a dialogue which he perhaps never intended to publish.
Another subject is handled in _Rameau's Nephew,_ which is interesting in connection with the mental activity of Paris in the eighteenth century.
Music was the field of as much passionate controversy as theology and philosophy.

The Bull Unigenitus itself did not lead to livelier disputes, or more violent cabals, than the conflict between the partisans of French music and the partisans of Italian music.

The horror of a Jansenist for a Molinist did not surpass that of a Lullist for a Dunist, or afterwards of a Gluckist for a Piccinist.[298] Lulli and Rameau (the uncle of our parasite) had undisputed possession of Paris until the arrival, in 1752, of a company of Italian singers.