ested and cast into the Bastille. Thence he
was transferred from one place of confinement to another; and at the
time he was preparing the second edition of his work, he was still (in
1744) a prisoner in the citadel of Valence. (See Advertisement to that
edition, note to page vii.) He died in exile at Valence, in 1754.

[5] Voltaire, with his usual wit and irreverence, proposed that the
notice, proclaiming the royal command, to be affixed to the gate of the
church-yard should read as follows:--

"De part le Roi, defense a Dieu
De faire miracle en ce lieu."

[6] Hecker alleges that "the insanity of the _Convusionnaires_ lasted,
without interruption, until the year 1790," that is, for fifty-nine
years, and was only interrupted by the excitement of the French
Revolution; also, that, in the year 1762, the "Grands Secours" were
forbidden by act of the Parliament of Paris.--_Epidemics of the Middle
Ages_, from the German of I.F.C. Hecker, M.D., translated by B.G.
Babington, M.D., F.R.S., London, 1846, p. 149.

There were published by Renault, parish, priest at Vaux near Ancerre,
two pamphlets against the Succorists,--one entitled "Le Secourisme
detruit dans ses Fondemens," in 1759, and the other, "Le Mystere
d'Iniquite," as late as 1788,--an evidence that the controversy was kept
up for at least half a century.

[7] "A peine l'entree du tombeau eut elle ete fermee, qu'on vit le
nombre des Convulsionnaires s'accroitre extraordinairement. Les
convulsions commencerent a s'etendre jusqu'a, des personnes qui
n'avaient ni maladie ni infirmite corporelle."--_Oeuvres de Colbert_,
Tom. II. p. 203. (This is Colbert, Bishop of Montpelier, and nephew of
Louis XIV.'s minister.)

[8] Montgeron, work cited, Tom. II. p. 36. Calmeil, _De la Folie_, Tom.
II, pp. 315, 317.

[9] For particulars and certificates in this case, see Montgeron, Tom.
II. _Troisieme Demonstration_, pp. 1-58.

[10] Montgeron, work cited, Tom. II. _Pieces Justificatives de la
Troisieme Demonstration_, p. 4.

[11] Montgeron, Tom. I. _Seconde Demonstration_, p. 6.

[12] "_Un coup d'epee_" is the expression employed by Montgeron; but the
facts elsewhere reported by himself do not seem to bear out, in most
cases, its accuracy. It was not usually a _thrust_ of a sword's point,
but only a _pressure_ with the point of a sharp sword, often so strong,
however, that the weapon was bent by its force.

[13] Montgeron, Tom. III. p. 10.

[14] See, for the entire r