FOOTNOTES:[1]Gibbon's acquaintance with Voltaire was only slight.Vidi tantum, he writes.[2]Poems addressed to her by these young theologians may be found in defunct magazines and annuals.[3]This is not quite accurate. The letter which M. d'Haussonville dates 1762 conveys a salutation to Pastor Curchod, who died in 1760. It must have been written, therefore, not in 1762, but in 1758 or 1759.[4]She sheltered Madame de Genlis in her flight from the Revolution.[5]By the present author in 'Madame de Staël and her Lovers.'[6]It has since been republished separately.[7]Madame de Hardenberg, divorced and remarried.[8]It was not made a University until later.
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[1]Gibbon's acquaintance with Voltaire was only slight.Vidi tantum, he writes.
[1]Gibbon's acquaintance with Voltaire was only slight.Vidi tantum, he writes.
[2]Poems addressed to her by these young theologians may be found in defunct magazines and annuals.
[2]Poems addressed to her by these young theologians may be found in defunct magazines and annuals.
[3]This is not quite accurate. The letter which M. d'Haussonville dates 1762 conveys a salutation to Pastor Curchod, who died in 1760. It must have been written, therefore, not in 1762, but in 1758 or 1759.
[3]This is not quite accurate. The letter which M. d'Haussonville dates 1762 conveys a salutation to Pastor Curchod, who died in 1760. It must have been written, therefore, not in 1762, but in 1758 or 1759.
[4]She sheltered Madame de Genlis in her flight from the Revolution.
[4]She sheltered Madame de Genlis in her flight from the Revolution.
[5]By the present author in 'Madame de Staël and her Lovers.'
[5]By the present author in 'Madame de Staël and her Lovers.'
[6]It has since been republished separately.
[6]It has since been republished separately.
[7]Madame de Hardenberg, divorced and remarried.
[7]Madame de Hardenberg, divorced and remarried.
[8]It was not made a University until later.
[8]It was not made a University until later.