26.3.25

The report show how police (Commissioner De Rochebrune) observed Diderot:


He is a young man who plays the wit and prides himself on his impiety; very dangeorus; speaks of the holy mysteries with scorn. He said that when he gests to the end of his life; he will confess and receive [in communion] what they call god, bur not from any obligation; merely out of regard for his family, so that they will not be reproached with the fact that he died without religion.