HereDe Lolmewrote not in his usual capacity as an observer andtheorist of government, but as an engaged political participant. He embraced the Repre ´sentants’ call for reformand republican renewal inseveral anonymous polemics that contributed to the vibrant public debate thatGeneva’s rulers found impossible to important of these publicationswas the 1767 La purification des trois points de droit souille ´s par un anonyme (The purification of three soiled points of law by an anonymous author). The unrestrained tone of this attack on the constitutional authority of the rul- ing Ne ´gatifs produced a prompt rebuke from the Genevan government, accompanied by the recommendation that its author quit his native.
