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As an author, he is now remembered for his Dialogues sur le commerce des blés (Dialogues on the Trade in Corn, 1770) and for his correspondence with Mme d’Épinay. The ‘stories’ referred to here are recollections of verbal performances, recounted with relish by Diderot in his letters to Sophie Volland, as here, for example, on 20 October 1760: ‘The Abbé tells good stories, but above all he is an excellent actor. He is quite irresistible. You would really have laughed to see him stretching out his neck and imitating the nightingale’s little voice; puffing himself up and catching the cuckoo’s raucous tone; and then sticking up his ears and assuming the stupid and ponderous gravity of the donkey—all this naturally and effortlessly.

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