Such faint and commonplace praise reflects on the eulogist.

The only man of letters of whom he speaks with warmth is Helvetius.

He does not appear in this first visit to have known Madame du Deffand, who was still keeping her _salon_ with the help of the pale deep-eyed L'Espinasse, though the final rupture was imminent.
Louis Racine died, and so did Marivaux, while he was in Paris.

The old Opera-house in the Palais Royal was burnt down when he had been there a little over a month, and the representations were transferred to the Salle des Machines, in the Tuileries.

The equestrian statue of Louis XV.