[291] Corr., i. 327-335.  D’Epinay, ii. 165-182

[292] D’Epinay, ii. 173.

[293] Conf., ix. 325.

[294] Ib., ix. 334.

[295] Mem., ii. 297.  She also places the date many mouths later than Rousseau, and detaches the reconciliation from the quarrel in the winter of 1756-1757.

[296] The same story is referred to in Madame de Vandeul’s Mem. de Diderot, p. 61.

[297] Conf., ix. 245, 246.

[298] Grimm to Madame d’Epinay, ii. 259, 269, 313, 326. Conf., x. 17.

[299] Mem., ii. 318.

[300] Conf., ix. 322.  Madame d’Epinay (Mem., ii. 326), writing to Grimm, gives a much colder and stiffer colour to the scene of reconciliation, but the nature of her relations with him would account for this.  The same circumstance, as M. Girardin has pointed out (Rev. des Deux Mondes, Sept. 1853), would explain the discrepancy between her letters as given in the Confessions, and the copies of them sent to Grimm, and printed in her Memoirs.  M. Sainte Beuve, who is never perfectly master of himself in dealing with the chiefs of the revolutionary schools, as might indeed have been expected in a writer with his predilections for the seventeenth century, rashly hints (Causeries, vii. 301) that Rousseau was the falsifier.  The publication from the autograph originals sets this at rest.

[301] For Shakespeare, see Corr.  Lit., iv. 143, etc.

[302] D’Epinay, ii. 188.

[303] D’Epinay, ii. 150.  Also Vandeul’s Mem. de Diderot, p. 61.

[304] Mem. ii. 128.

[305] P. 258.  See also p. 146.

[306] Pp. 282, 336, etc.

[307] Corr., i. 386.  June 1757.

[308] Conf., ix. 355.  For Madame d’Epinay’s equally credible version, assigning all the stiffness and arrogance to Rousseau, see Mem., ii. 355-358.  Saint Lambert refers to the momentary reconciliation in his letter to Rousseau of Nov. 21 (Streckeisen, i. 418), repeating what he had said before (p. 417), that Grimm always spoke of Mm in amicable terms, though complaining of Rousseau’s injustice.

[309] Conf., ix. 372.

[310] Corr., i. 404-416.  Oct 19, 1757.

[311] Grimm to Diderot, in Madame d’Epinay’s Mem. ii. 386.  Nov. 3, 1757.

[312] D’Epinay, ii. 387.  Nov. 3.

[313] Corr., i. 425.  Nov. 8. Ib. 426.

[314] Streckeisen-Moultou, i. 381-383.

[315] Ib. 387.  Many years after, Rousseau told Bernardin de St. Pierre (Oeuv., xii. 57) that one of the reasons which made him leave the Hermitage was the indiscretion of friends who insisted on sending him letters by some conveyance that cost 4 francs, when it might equally well have been sent for as many sous.

[316] The sources of all this are in the following places. Corr., i. 416.  Oct. 29.  Streckeisen, i. 349.  Nov. 12. Conf., ix. 377. Corr., i. 427.  Nov. 23. Conf., ix. 381.  Dec. 1. Ib., ix. 383.  Dec. 17.