Duclos, Charles, a witty and satirical French writer, born at Dinan; author of “Observations,” and “A History of the Manners of the Eighteenth Century,” and “Mémoires of the Reigns of Louis XIV. and Louis XV.”; he mingled much in French society of the period, and took studious note of its passing whims (1704‒1772).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ducking Stool * Ducornet