Rousseau Part 10

FOOTNOTES:

[201] _Rep. a M. Bordes_, 163.

[202] Pictet de Sergy., i. 18.

[203] _Conf._, iv. 248.

[204] _Ib._ ix. 279. Also _Economie Politique_.

[205] Madame de la Popeliniere, whose adventures and the misadventures of her husband are only too well known to the reader of Marmontel's Memoirs.

[206] The pa.s.sages relating to income during his first residence in Paris (1744-1756) are at pp. 119, 145, 153, 165, 200, 227, in Books vii.-ix. of the _Confessions_. Rousseau told Bernardin de St. Pierre (_Oeuv._, xii. 74) that Emile was sold for 7000 livres. In the _Confessions_ (xi. 126), he says 6000 livres, and one or two hundred copies. It may be worth while to add that Diderot and D'Alembert received 1200 livres a year apiece for editing the Encyclopaedia.

Sterne received 650 for two volumes of _Tristram Shandy_ in 1780.

Walpole's _Letters_, in. 298.

[207] _Conf._, viii. 154-157.

[208] _Ib._ viii. 160.

[209] _Conf._, viii. 160, 161.

[210] _Ib._ viii. 159.

[211] _Reveries_, iii 168.

[212] _Reveries_, iii. 166.

[213] See the _Epitre a Mdme. la Marquise du Chatelet, sur la Calomnie_.

[214] _La Femme au 18ieme siecle_, par MM. de Goncourt, p. 40.

[215] Madame d'Epinay's _Mem._, i. 295.

[216] Quoted in Goncourt's _Femme au 18ieme siecle_, p. 378.

[217] _Ib._, p. 337.

[218] Mdlle. L'Espina.s.se's _Letters_, ii. 89.

[219] Madame d'Epinay's _Mem._, ii. 47, 48.

[220] _Ib._, ii. 55.

[221] _Mem._, Bk. iv. 327.

[222] _Corr. Lit._, iii. 58.

[223] _Ib._, 54.

[224] Madame d'Epinay's _Mem._, i. 378-381. Saint Lambert formulated his atheism afterwards in the _Catechisme Universel_.

[225] Madame d'Epinay's _Mem._, i. 443.

[226] _Corr._, i. 317. Sept. 14, 1756.

[227] Letter to Madame de Crequi, 1752. _Corr._, i. 171.

[228] _Conf_,., vii. 104.

[229] The _Devin du Village_ was played at Fontainebleau on October 18, 1752, and at the Opera in Paris in March 1753. Madame de Pompadour took a part in it in a private performance. See Rousseau's note to her, _Corr._, i. 178.

[230] _Conf._, viii. 190.

[231] _Conf._, viii. 183.

[232] _Conf._, viii. 202; and Musset-Pathay, ii. 439. When in Strasburg, in 1765, he could not bring himself to be present at its representation. _Oeuv. et Corr. Ined._, p. 434.

[233] Madame de Stael insisted that her father said this, and Necker insisted that it was his daughter's.

[234] _Corr._, i. 176. Feb. 13, 1753.

[235] _Conf._, viii. 208-210.

[236] She died on July 30, 1762, aged "about sixty-three years."

Arthur Young, visiting Chamberi in 1789, with some trouble procured the certificate of her death, which may be found in his _Travels_, i.

272. See a letter of M. de Conzie to Rousseau, in M.

Streckeisen-Moultou's collection, ii. 445.

[237] _Conf._, xii. 233.

[238] _Conf._, viii. 210.

[239] Gaberel's _Rousseau et les Genevois_, p. 62. _Conf._, viii. 212.

[240] The venerable Company of Pastors and Professors of the Church and Academy of Geneva appointed a committee, as in duty bound, to examine these allegations, and the committee, equally in duty bound, reported (Feb. 10, 1758) with mild indignation, that they were unfounded, and that the flock was untainted by unseasonable use of its mind. See on this Rousseau's _Lettres ecrites de la Montagne_, ii.

231.

[241] See Picot's _Hist. de Geneve_, ii. 415.

[242] _Letters containing an account of Switzerland, Italy, etc., in 1685-86._ By G. Burnet, p. 9.

[243] J.A. Turretini's complete works were published as late as 1776, including among much besides that no longer interests men, an _Oratio de Scientiarum Vanitate et Proestantia_ (vol. iii. 437), not at all in the vein of Rousseau's Discourse, and a treatise in four parts, _De Legibus Naturalibus_, in which, among other matters, he refutes Hobbes and a.s.sails the doctrine of Utility (i. 173, etc.), by limiting its definition to [Greek: to pros heauton] in its narrowest sense. He appears to have been a student of Spinoza (i. 326). Francis Turretini, his father, took part in the discussion as to the nature of the treaty or contract between G.o.d and man, in a piece ent.i.tled _Foedus Naturae a primo homine ruptum, ejusque Proevaricationem posteris imputatam_ (1675).

[244] Gaberel's _Eglise de Geneve_, iii. 188.

[245] _Corr._, i. 223 (to Vernes, April 5, 1755).

[246] _Conf._, viii. 215, 216. _Corr._, i. 218 (to Perdriau, Nov. 28, 1754).