Cagliostro

Excerpt from Les Illumines: Recits Et Portraits; Le Roi de Bicetre (Raoul Spifame); Histoire de l'Abbe du Buquoy; Les Confidences de Nicolas (Restif de la Bretone); Jacques Cazotte; Cagliostro; Quintus Aucler

Dans ce temps - ci, ou les portraits litteraires ont quelque succes, j'ai voulu peindre certains eecen 1riques de la philosophie. Loin de moi la pensee d'attaquer ceux de leurs successeurs qui soufi'rent aujourd hui d'avoir tente tr0p follement ou trop tot la realisation de leurs reves. Ces analyses, ces biographies furent ecrites a-diverses epoques, bien qu'elles dussent se rattacher a la meme serie.

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