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...work? intended to be useful to all those who are interested in the antiquities
of the ancient Gauls. It would be enough for me to satisfy their Defenders, and I take to heart
the faults? which have made other Nations jealous of the French Name.
Such indifferent abuses for a Prince destined to create the happiness of
France, cannot lose, MY LORD, any more than the lowest? or more
favorable than yours. I pray you to accept this homage as the effect of
my zeal and the profound respect with which I am,

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The History of the Celts, of which a new edition is being given,
is a work unique in its genre, and which has deserved the approval
of all Scholars.

Several Authors have written the History of different Nations;
but Mr. Pelloutier is the only one who has gone back to the origin of the Lan-
guage, the Manners, the Laws, and the Religion of the Peoples who, in
the earliest times, inhabited the known World.

The first two Books of the History of the Celts appeared in
1740, at The Hague, published by Jean Beauregard. This Bookseller, poorly seconding
the intentions of the Author, delayed the printing of the third
Book until 1750. That Edition is rare-fictive likely meaning poorly printed or counterfeit, and it
has become very rare. This is what engaged me to under-
take a new one.

I must now give an account of the additions and changes
that I have made to the Book by Mr. Pelloutier.

I believed it necessary to place at the head of the Work the Eulogy of the Author
written by Mr. Formey, Secretary of the Academy of Prussia. It is
all the more necessary to give an idea of the life of Mr. Pel-
loutier because, through an unpardonable ignorance, our Lexicogra-
phers, by copying and valuing one another, have said nothing
of a Scholar who held such a distinguished rank in Literature.

I have added some Notes; but they are few in number.
The Book was sometimes diffuse and overgrown. I have removed the...
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