As for Les Mœurs, even if it were his biggest success, he felt sorry for having written it almost all his life. Parts of the book were re-used in several articles of the Encyclopédie. Literature A short summary is to be found in The Encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie by Frank 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 It is basically an excerpt of a more extended discussion, the unpublished thesis of Margaret Elinor Adams: François Vincent Toussaint: Life and Works.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 la première fois avec une notice et des annotations par Paul Fould. Paris: Plon 1905 References External links For a bibliography of Les Mœurs see https://web.archive.org/web/20111005221725/http://www.encore.at/mam/toussaint/lesmoeurs For an unpublished letter see http://www.encore.at/mam/toussaint For his speeches at the Prussian Academy see http://www.bbaw.de/bibliothek/digital/index.html A summary in German and a picture of a titlepage of Les Mœurs to be found at http://ub-dok.uni-trier.de/argens/pic/pers/Toussaint.php 1715 births 1772 deaths Writers from Paris 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772) French translators 18th-century French translators