FOREWORD.

-nedictine, and contradicted my views on Flamel's fortune. Since then, the opinion of these two Authors has been presented as plausible in a forthcoming edition of a Description of Paris, of which the article concerning me has kindly been shared.

To this first motive, which seemed to require clarification, was added the desire of individuals well-known in the Republic of Letters original: "République des lettres." The long-distance intellectual community of scholars and writers in the 17th and 18th centuries who shared their work and ideas across borders., for whom all truth is precious. They believed it would be useful to provide a thorough understanding of a man as renowned as Flamel, and that I ought to shed more light on what I had only sketched in my Essay.

I confess that it was with some reluctance that I yielded to these motives. Nothing is so daunting as leafing through old titles original: "titres." In this context, the author refers to legal documents, deeds, and records used as historical evidence., most of which are of little interest in themselves and almost always very difficult to decipher. A state of health