David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ This was great joy to Bayle. ‘I hope,’ he said in his Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, March 1684, ‘Monsieur Justel, who now resides in London, and who is so inquiring, so learned, so well informed in all that concerns the Republic of letters, and so well disposed to contribute his information, will tell us many things that will do much honour to this Journal.’ Scarcely had Justel arrived in London when he was named librarian to the King of England. Such was his reputation as a learned man, that he was more than once chosen to arbitrate in erudite quarrels. ”

“ Our extirpation is decreed; we must all be banished our country or turn Papists. I tell it you because I intend to come into England where I have many friends, and that when you see me in your country you may remember that I told you.”
In 1676 Henri Justel married his cousin Charlotte de Lorme. Their daughter was buried on March 17, 1681, the eve of their departure from France. Weiss informs us: — “Justel, who was secretary to Louis XIV., early penetrated that monarch’s designs. Resolutely making up his mind, he sold his rich library several years before the Revocation, and went to England. ”

“ Justel’s Dedicatory Epistle is “To Monsieur Conrart. Since it is you, sir, who inspired me with the thought of undertaking the defence of our common cause against a Prelate of the reputation of the Bishop of Condom, be pleased also to become responsible to the public for the manner in which I have acquitted myself herein. I am persuaded a man could not set here a better name than yours, to do no wrong to himself, or to give more weight to the Answer he had made. It is notorious that you are known through all parts where desert is known. ”