Lettre de Thrasibule à Leucippe
Subtitle: ouvrage posthume de m. F.....
Published: 1766
Place of publication: à Londres. [i.e.Holland?]'
Language: fre
Number of pages: 312
Notes: False imprint.

Author named in "Avis de l'imprimeur"; also ascribed to Holbach or to J.A. Naigeon; entered by Ciroanescu under Fréret (29709), Holbac (34070) & Naigeon (47752) with ascriptions to these figures in varying combinations & also to [N.] La Grange (d.1775) as a joint author, with separate entry (24115) under Diderot for "La Moïsade" alone (v. infra), with ascription of it to Fréret & Holbac, Naigeon & Nicolas de La Grange (d.1767) jointly; C.A. Walckenaer is daid by Jules Assézat in his edition of Diderot's Oeuvres complètes 4 (1875), [118] to have attributed the work to Diderot, but Walckenaer in his "Rapport fait à l'Académie des insciptions et belles-lettres" in its Memoires 16 (1850), 323-9 finds the work to be Naigeon's, even if "[composé] avec le secours de ses amis"; Naigeon himself claimed responsiblity for the reworked & annotated version tath he included in his Encyclopédie méthodique Philosophie ancienne et moderne 2 (1792), 482-539.

Some editions appear without "La Moïsade" (here found, p.289-312) & in some editions it is entitled "La Moisiade"; its attribution to Fréret is challenged by Brunet (Manuel du libraire, vol.2 (1861), p.1391); the British Museum in their entry for this edition of the Lettre de Thrasibule make no exception for the authorship of "La Moïsade" contained therein, yet enter under Fréret an 1802 translation into Italian of the latter work; "La Moïsade" by Fréret, which is a work; "La Moïsade" by Fréret which is a work in prose satriqzing certain characters in the Pentateuch, is not to be confused with the work of the same name (also found with title "L'incrédule") which is a deistic poem possilby written by a certain Lourdet (cf. NUC engry for this edition of the Lettre de Thrasibule, under (Holbach).

The matter at front by purported translators of the work from Greek & later from English into French is a falsification and probably not by Fréret.

Errarta: recto of leaf at end.