'Le
Diable Amoureux' appeared in 1772. Cazotte escaped the September
Massacres at the Abbaye in 1792, through the heroism of his daughter,
but was executed on the twenty-fifth of the same month.]
[Footnote 7:
"I had already, singularly enough, anticipated this suggestion, by
making the daughter of a Peri the heroine of one of my stories, and
detailing the love adventures of her aerial parent in an episode. In
acquainting Lord Byron with this circumstance, in my answer to the
above letter, I added, 'All I ask of your friendship is--not that you
will abstain from Peris on my account, for that is too much to ask of
human (or, at least, author's) nature--but that, whenever you mean to
pay your addresses to any of these aerial ladies, you will, at once,
tell me so, frankly and instantly, and let me, at least, have my
choice whether I shall be desperate enough to go on, with such a
rival, or at once surrender the whole race into your hands, and take,
for the future, to Antediluvians with Mr. Montgomery'"
(Moore).]
[Footnote 8: Brunet, 's.v.' "Breton de la Martiniere," gives the title
of the work: 'Moeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de leur
histoire'. Par A.L. Castellan, Paris, 1812.]
[Footnote 9: Maxime LXXXV.:
"Nous nous persuadons souvent d'aimer les gens plus puissans que nous,
et neanmoins c'est l'interet seul qui produit notre amitie; nous ne
nous donnons pas a eux pour le bien que nous leur voulons faire, mais
pour celui que nous en voulons recevoir.
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