Philosophical Dictionary (Vol. 2)

that is not true. A hundred years later, a manuscript titled Succinct Narration was found; this Succinct Narration has no connection to the Political Testament. However, there was the artifice of having it printed as a first chapter of the testament with notes.

Regarding the notes, one does not know whose hands they are from.

What is very true is that the alleged testament did not cause a stir in the world until thirty-eight years after the cardinal's death; that it was not printed until forty-two years after that death; that the original signed by him has never been seen; that the book is very bad; and that it hardly deserves to be spoken of.

OTHER ANECDOTES.

Is Charles I, that unfortunate king of England, the author of the famous book Eikon Basilike Greek: "Royal Image"? Would that king have given a Greek title to his book?

Did the Count of Moret, son of Henry IV, wounded at the little skirmish of Castelnaudari, live until 1693 under the name of the hermit Brother Jean-Baptiste? What proof is there that this hermit was the son of Henry IV? None.

Did Jeanne d’Albret of Navarre, mother of Henry IV, marry a gentleman named Goyon after the death of Antoine, who was killed at the Saint-Barthélemy massacre? Did she have a son who was a preacher in Bordeaux? This fact is very detailed in the Remarks on Bayle’s Answers to the Questions of a Provincial, folio edition, page 689.