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Superstition in all ages
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- by John Meslier... who... left as his last will and testament to his parishioners, and to the world, to be published after his death, the following pages, entitled Common sense. Translated from the French original, by Miss Anna Knoop
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- Abstract of the testament of John Meslier
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- New York : Miss Anna Knoop, 1884
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- 338 pages
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- Abstract of the Testament of John Meslier, by Voltaire, pp. 283-339.
- The 1830 text, of which this is a translation, is the same as Holbach's Le bon sens ou idées naturelles opposées aux idées surnaturelles, published in 1772; Meslier's Testament also is closely attached to Holbach (see Nouvell biographie générale, v. 35-36); the Testament was first published by Voltaire; another edition Bon sens was published in 1791 under the pseudonym, Meslier. The Bon sens and the Testament were later published as one work, Catéchisme du Curé Meslier. (See Allgemeine deutsche biographie, Grand Larousse, Barbier's Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, Gran dictionnaire universel (Larousse), and Querard's Supercheries litteraires dévoilées).