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SECTION VI.
Of the History of the Book.
1. THat Book that ought to have been so well Concerted with my Lord of Paris and M. Tronson: (As for me, I was one to whom he would no more hearken:) That Book, I say, wherein he had engaged himself, as has been said, not to put any thing but what was Corrected, and approved by them, ap∣peared at last on a sudden in February, 1697. without the least Mark of any such Approba∣tion. The Arch-bishop of Paris has explain'd himself to the Arch-bishop of Cambray, how that Book appeared against his Advice, and against the formal Word M. de Cambray had given him. As for me, who restrict my self wholly to what is publick on that Head, I shall only Observe, that not to find the Arch-bishop of Paris's Approbation at the Head of that Book, is the same in my Opinion as the Refusal of it, seeing, that ac∣cording to the Obligations M. de Cambray had taken upon him, he ought to have demanded it: Let us not then any more speak of mine, which was no less necessary, seeing I was one of the two Prelates whose Principles he pro∣mised to explain. We must not forget that Authentick Promise in the Advertisement of M. de Cambray. There was publish'd a Book, that was to decide such Nice Matters, to di∣stinguish so exactly betwixt the true and the