CHAPTER VIII.
"RAMEAU'S NEPHEW."

The mood that inspired this composition
History of the text
Various accounts of the design of _Rameau's Nephew_
Juvenal's Parasite
Lucian
Diderot's picture of his original
Not without imaginative strokes
More than a literary diversion
Sarcasms on Palissot
The musical controversy




DIDEROT.




CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARY.


There was a moment in the last century when the Gallican church hoped
for a return of internal union and prosperity. This brief era of hope