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GIBBON AND LOUIS XVT.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. F. H. O'Donnell, will find the information he seeks in " Que'rard, I La France Litteraire,' " v. 3, who gives for his authority " ' Le Roi Martyr,' par M. de

Maulieres," Paris, 1815. 8vo. Louis XVI. translated only the first five volumes of the French edition of Gibbon ; the work was continued by MM. Demeunier, Boulard, Cantwell, and Marigne. Le Clem de Sept Chenes was reader to Louis XVI.—I am,