[3] Conf., i. 7.

[4] Lettre a D’Alembert, p. 187.  Also Nouv.  Hel., VI. v. 239.

[5] Conf., i. 9.  Also Second Letter to M. de Malesherbes, p. 356.

[6] Reveries, iv. p. 189.  “My master and counsellor, Plutarch,” he says, when he lends a volume to Madame d’Epinay in 1756. Corr., i. 265.

[7] Dedication of the Discours sur l’Origine de l’Inegalite, p. 201.  (June, 1754.)

[8] Conf., i. 1.

[9] Ib, i. 12.

[10] The tenacity of this grateful recollection is shown in letters to her (Madame Gonceru)—­one in 1754 (Corr., i. 204), another as late as 1770 (vi. 129), and a third in 1762 (Oeuvr. et Corr.  Ined., 392).

[11] Conf., i. 17-32.

[12] See also Conf., i. 43; iii. 185; vii. 73; xii. 188, n. 2.

[13] Conf., i. 27-31.

[14] Conf., i. 38-47.

[15] Lettre a D’Alembert(1758), 178, 179.

[16] Reveries, iv. 211, 212.

[17] Conf. 212, 213.

[18] Conf., ii. 102, 103.

[19] M. Masseron.

[20] M. Ducommun.

[21] Conf., i. 69.

[22] Conf., i. 72.

[23] J. Gaberel’s Histoire de l’Eglise de Geneve (Geneva, 1853-62), vol. iii. p. 285.

[24] There is a minute in the register of the company of ministers, to the effect that the Sieur de Pontverre “is attracting many young men from this town, and changing their religion, and that the public ought to be warned.” (Gaberel, iii. 224.)

[25] Conf., ii. 76.

[26] Conf., ii. 77.

[27] Conf., ii. 90-97.

[28] Conf., ii. 107

[29] See Emile, iv. 124, 125, where the youth who was born a Calvinist, finding himself a stranger in a strange land, without resource, “changed his religion to get bread.”

[30] In the Confessions (ii. 115) he has grace enough to make the period a month; but the extract from the register of his baptism (Gaberel’s Hist. de l’Eglise de Geneve, iii. 224), which has been recently published, shows that this is untrue:  “Jean Jacques Rousseau, de Geneve (Calviniste), entre a l’hospice a l’age de 16 ans, le 12 avril, 1728.  Abjura les erreurs de la secte le 21; et le 23 du meme mois lui fut administre le saint bapteme, ayant pour parrain le sieur Andre Ferrero et pour marraine Francoise Christine Rora (ou Rovea).”

A little further on (p. 119) he speaks of having been shut up “for two months,” but this is not true even on his own showing.

[31] Madame Basile. Conf., ii. 121-135.

[32] Conf. ii. ad finem.

[33] Conf., ii. 144.

[34] Another version of the story mentioned by Musset-Pathay (i. 7) makes the object of the theft a diamond, but there is really no evidence in the matter beyond that given by Rousseau himself.