While Malebranche's Recherche de la généralité ("general" law and "general" will) is the dominant strain in French jurisprudence, finally shaping the legalpolitical thought of Montesquieu and of Rousseau, there is a recessive (but not negligible) strain which is 'skeptical" (descended from Montaigne and Charron) and which emerges in its strongest form in the legal-political-moral thought of Voltaire. Since généralité and French Pyrrhonisme (between them) dominate French practical thought in early modernity, a chapter on Voltaire is fully warranted.