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To cover his failures as a dramatist by buying up a great number of seats, and his books were lavishly illustrated by good artists and expensively produced, to secure their success. He was maladroit enough to draw down on himself the hatred both of the philosophe party and of their arch-enemy Charles Palissot, and thus cut himself off from the possibility of academic honours. Le Tartufe litteraire (1777) attacked La Harpe and Palissot, and at the same time D'Alembert and Mlle de Lespinasse. Dorat died on the 29th of April 1780 in Paris.

See G. Desnoireterres, Le Chevalier Dorat et les pates le'gers au X VIII e siecle (1887). For the bibliographical value of his works, see Henry Cohen, Guide de l'amateur de livres a figures et a vignettes du X VIII e siecle (editions of Ch. Mehl, 1876, and R. Portalis, 1887).