[12:12] Jal, _Dict. Critique_, p. 685.

[13:13] His career is somewhat doubtful. He travelled in Italy in 1779
and Abbe Galiani, an old friend of Holbach's, got a very agreeable
impression of him. John Wilkes, in a letter to his daughter in 1781,
seems to imply that he had not turned out very well, and hopes that the
baron's second son will make good the deficiencies of the first. In
1806 he published a translation of Weiland's _Oberon_ or _Huon de
Bordeaux_ which went thru another edition in 1825, but those are the
only details that have come to light.

[13:14] Diderot, in writing to Mlle Volland Sep. 17, 1760 says: "On
nourrit, a Chenvieres, les deux filles de Madame d'Holbach. L'ainee
est belle comme un cherubin; c'est un visage rond, de grands yeux
bleus, des levres fines, une bouche riante, la peau la plus blanche
et la plus animee, des cheveux chatains qui ceignent un tres joli
front. La cadette est un peloton d'embonpoint ou l'on ne distingue
encore que du blanc et du vermillon."

[13:15] Gazette de France, June 1, 1781.

[14:16] Holbach's intendant was [a] Jew, Berlise. After his death several
of his old servants Vincent, David, and Plocque, contested Holbach's will,
in which they thought they were legatees. The case was in the courts
for several years and was finally decided against them. Douarche,
_Les tribunaux civil de Paris pendant la revolution_, Paris, 1905, Vol. I.,
pp. 141, 261, 325, 689.

[14:17] Avezac-Lavigne, _Diderot_, p. 5.