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Bibliographical Note
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are signed at the end.

In 1857, Aug. Aubry reissued this translation exactly as it stood, among the "Variétés Bibliographiques" of his "Bulletin du Bouquiniste" (17e numero, 1er Septembre), but with the addition of a preliminary note signed "G. Duplessis." We may assume that the paper aroused the interest it deserved, since it was reissued the same year as an octavo pamphlet of thirteen pages, limited to one hundred copies. The title-page reads as follows:

Des Devoirs / Et Des Qualités / Du Bibliothécaire / Discours prononcé dans l'Assemblée générale de Sorbonne, / le 23 décembre 1780, / Par J.-B. Cotton