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PG-P.730.069
15-22 Oct 1730:11,12,21,22 (101)
Paris, Feb. 27. Monsieur Languet, Bishop of Soissons, and a
member of the French Academy, &c. has lately put an affront
upon the learned age we live in, by offering to impose upon
the world a silly and scandalous legend, which would not
have met with credit, even when Europe was overwhelmed in an
abyss of ignorance and superstition. He had before
convinced the publick, that he was a poor writer, a mean
philosopher, and a very indifferent divine, but he has now
been further pleased to let us know, that he is a downright
fanatick and visionary, by publishing a book in quarto, of
400 pages, containing the life of Margaret a la Coque, a
professed nun of the Visitation of the Monastery of Paray le
Monial, in the county of Charolois, who died in that house
in the year 1690. . . [3 1/4 columns reviewing the book.]
The people of Paris laugh at him likewise; and there are
ballads publickly sung against him in the streets, the
burthen of which is La Coque, La Coque.
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