Octave of Easter disciples, with Thomas the Apostle present, on the Sunday following his resurrection. A traditional name in English is Low Sunday, perhaps given this name because of the contrast with the high festival of Easter on the preceding Sunday, or the word "Low" may be a corruption of Latin "Laudes", the first word of a sequence in use in the Sarum Rite. Another name is Quasimodo Sunday, from the first words of the introit in Latin. Easter Week was known as "ebdomada alba" (white week) or "in albis" (in white), because of the white robes that those who had been baptized
This is not a story Diderot concludes his book in saying that to judge someone based on one single character trait is going a bit fast, but that there is a lot of truth in generalities. The title of "Ceci n'est pas un conte", followed by "Second conte" (whose name completely contradicts the first title), betrays Diderot's game. He plays with reality and appearances, truth and falsity, as well as the perception of truth, falsity, good, bad and the relativity of these notions. The "Supplément au voyage de Bougainville", which evokes the morality of a civilisation from the end of the world, appears much like