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The number, indeed, of political works burnt during the eighth decade of the last century is as remarkable as the number of religious books so treated about the same period: one of the lesser indications of the coming Revolution. During this decade were condemned: Pidanzet's Correspondance secrète familière de Chancelier Maupeon avec Sorhouet for being blasphemous and seditious, and calculated to rouse people against government; a work that made sport of Maupeon and his Parlement. Beaumarchais' Mémoires , of the literary style of which Voltaire himself is said to have been jealous, but which was condemned to the flames for its imputations on the powers that were. Lanjuinais' Monarque Accompli , whose other title explains why it was condemned, as tending to sedition and revolt, Prodiges de bonté, de savoir, et de sagesse, qui font l'éloge de Sa Majesté Impériale Joseph II., et qui rendent cet auguste monarque si précieux
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