Raynal, the Abbé, French philosopher; wrote “Histoire des Indes” and edited “Philosophic History,” distinguished for its “lubricity, unveracity, loose, loud eleutheromaniac rant,” saw it burnt by the common hangman, and his wish fulfilled as a “martyr” to liberty (1713‒1796).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Raymond * Raynouard, François