It is a chaos of memoranda translated or rendered into modern French, reflections and arguments against free-thought as represented by Michelet, H.Martin, Quicherat, Vallet de Viriville, Simeon Luce, and Joseph Fabre.

Two headings will suffice to give an idea of the book's tone: _The Pseudo-theologians, executioners of Jeanne d'Arc, executioners of the Papacy_ (vol.i, p.

87); _The University of Paris and the Brigandage of Rouen_ (p.

149).

The author too often judges the fifteenth century by the standards of the nineteenth.