LeNain de Tillemont

Gibbon was scrupulous and generous in discharging his intellecttual and scholarly debts. The footnotes in the Decline and Fall (which comprise about a fourth of the work) are a candid and reliable index of the materials used in its composition. The reader of Gibbon is most forcefully struck by those mordant remarks which annihilate the work-and occasionally the character-of some obscure pedant. But the majority of Gibbon's notes are elegant apostrophes to the scholarship that supports the Decline and Fall. Of all the secondary authorities cited by Gibbon-there are nearly 3,000 such references- none is so frequently cited (about 250 times) and praised as Sebastien LeNain de Tillemont. He is "that learned Jansenist," "the indefatigable Tillemont," "the accurate M. de Tillemont"; and in one of those felicitous metaphors of which Gibbon was a master, Tillemont is "the patient and sure-footed mule of the Alps" who "may be trusted in the most slippery paths

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