François-Vincent Toussaint [SEP] native language
François-Vincent Toussaint
François-Vincent Toussaint (21 December 1715 - 22 June 1772) was a French writer most famous for "Les Mœurs" (The Manners). The book was published in 1748 and was soon prosecuted and burned by the French court of justice.
Toussaint worked with Denis Diderot and Marc-Antoine Eidous on a French translation of Dr. Robert James' "A Medicinal Dictionary" (the London publication of 1743-1745, fol. 3 vols, became "Dictionnaire universel de medicine",
A. Kafker and Serena L. Kafker. Published 1988 in the "Studies of Voltaire and the Eighteenth century".
It is basically an excerpt of a more extended discussion, the unpublished thesis of 
- "Margaret Elinor Adams: François Vincent Toussaint: Life and Works." Dissertation, Boston University Graduate School 1966
Adams corrects several flaws and errors in previous research on Toussaint by 
- "Toussaint, François-Vincent: Anecdotes curieuses de la cour de France sous la régne de Louis XV. Texte original publié pour