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On the second floor, one apartment was tenanted by an old gentleman named Poiret; the other by a man of about forty years of age, who wore a black wig, dyed his whiskers, gave out that he was a retired merchant, and called himself Monsieur Vautrin.

Poiret was a human automaton, who had earned a pension by mechanical labour as a government functionary.

" A few days after this scene, Mademoiselle Michonneau and Poiret were sitting on a bench in the Jardin des Plantes, when they were accosted by the chief of the detective force.

Pierre Poiret (1646-1719; for some years a preacher in Hamburg; lived later in Rhynsburg near Leyden) was rendered hostile to Cartesianism through the influence of mystical writings (among others those of Antoinette Bourignon, which he published), and through the perception of the results to which it had led in Spinoza.

[Footnote 1: Poiret: Cogitationes Rationates de Deo, Anima, et Malo, 1677, the later editions including a vehement attack on the atheism of Spinoza: L'Économie Divine, 1682; De Eruditione Solida, Superficiaria, et Falsa, 1692;

[Footnote 2: That the mathematical view of nature, since it leaves room for quantitative distinctions alone, is equivalent to an examination of nature had been clearly recognized by Poiret.

DE WILDE, PERRINE PAULE POIRET.

SEE Wilde, Perrine Paule Poiret de. DE ZOETE, BERYL.

Paul Colin Poiret & Mme de Wilde, See Perrine Paule Poiret (C); 10Apr58; R212786.

POIRET, PAUL COLIN.

POIRET, PERRINE PAULE.

SEE Wilde, Perrine Paule Poiret de. POLING, DANIEL A. Between two worlds.

Roger Wilde (C); 19Mar58; R210589. WILDE, PERRINE PAULE POIRET DE.