Ibid., Sept. 22, O.S., 1749.
Footnote 371: Ibid., Sept. 5, O.S., 1749.
Footnote 372: Letter to his Son, Nov. 8, O.S., 1750.
Footnote 373: Letter to his Son, May 10, O.S., 1748.
Footnote 374: Letter to his Son, April 30, O.S., 1750.
Footnote 375: Letters from Paris, Sept. 22, 26; Oct. 3, 6, 1765.
Footnote 376: A Character of England, As it was lately presented in a
Letter to a Noble Man of France, London, 1659.
Footnote 377: See Voltaire, Lettres Philosophiques, tome ii. p. 272,
ed. Gustave Lanson, Paris, 1909.
Footnote 378:
"The merest John Trot in a week you shall see
Bien poli, bien frize, tout a fait un Marquis."
(Samuel Foote, Dramatic Works, vol. i. p. 47.)
The Hon. James Howard, The English Mounsieur, London, 1674; Sir George
Etherege, Sir Fopling Flutter, Love in a Tub, Act III. Sc. iv.
The Abbe le Blanc on visiting England was very indignant at the
representation of his countrymen on the London stage: he describes how,
"Two actors came in, one dressed in the English manner very decently,
and the other with black eye-brows, a riband an ell long under his chin,
a big peruke immoderately powdered, and his nose all bedaubed with
snuff. What Englishman could not know a Frenchman by this ridiculous
picture?... But when it was found that the man thus equipped, being also
laced down every seam of his coat, was nothing but a cook, the
spectators were equally charmed and surprised.
