[3] "Léris is accounted by many commentators very nearly the equal of François and Claude Parfaict when it comes to painstaking accuracy and responsible commentary," William Brooks observes.
[4] Antoine de Léris supported himself as a man of letters with a sinecure purchased at the Chambre des comptes, as premier huissier ("first usher").
[5] Collaborating with abbé Marc-Antoine Laugier[6] and Antoine Jacques Labbet, abbé de Morambert, he edited the first French review of music,[7] Sentiment d'un harmonophile sur différents ouvrages de musique ("Views of a lover of harmony on different works of music") "Amsterdam", i.e. Paris:Jombert, 1756.
[9] He also took part in Après-soupers de la campagne ou, Recueil d'Histoires courrantes et amusantes ("Country after-dinner evenings, or collection of current and amusing tales"), 1759 and 1764.
[10] Friedrich Melchior Grimm didn't think much of the second collection: "The author claims that the public received his work with indulgence.