Theresa (see Le Vasseur).
Thought, school of, division between rationalists
and emotionalists,
i. 337.
Tonic Sol-fa notation, close correspondence of the,
to Rousseau’s
system, i. 299.
Tronchin on Voltaire, i. 319, n., 321.
Turgot, i. 89;
his discourses at the Sorbonne in 1750,
i. 155;
the one sane eminent Frenchman of eighteenth
century, i. 202;
his unselfish toil, i. 233; ii. 193;
mentioned, ii. 246, 294.
Turin, Rousseau at, i. 34-43;
leaves it, i. 45;
tries to learn Latin at, i. 91.
Turretini and other rationalisers, i. 226;
his works, i. 226, n.
UNIVERSE, constitution of, discussion on, i. 311-317.
VAGABOND life, Rousseau’s love of, i. 63, 68.
Val de Travers, ii. 77; Rousseau’s life in, ii. 91-95.
Vasseur, Theresa Le, Rousseau’s first acquaintance
with, i. 106,
107, also ib.
n.;
their life together, i. 110-113;
well befriended, ii. 80, n.;
her evil character, ii. 326.
Vauvenargues on emotional instinct, ii. 34.
Venice, Rousseau at, i. 100-106.
Vercellis, Madame de, Rousseau servant to, i. 39.
Verdelin, Madame de, her kindness to Theresa, ii.
80, n.;
to Rousseau, ii. 118, n.
Village Soothsayer, the (Devin du Village),
composed at
Passy, performed at
Fontainebleau and Paris, i. 212;
marked a revolution in French Music, i.
291.
Voltaire, i. 2, 21, 63;
effect on Rousseau of his Letters on the
English, i. 86;
spreads a derogatory report about Rousseau,
i. 101, n.;
his “Princesse de Navarre,”
i. 119;
criticism on Rousseau’s first Discourse,
i. 147;
effect on his work of his common sense,
i. 155;
avoids the society of Paris, i. 202;
his conversion to Romanism, i. 220, 221;
strictures on Homer and Shakespeare, i.
280;
his position in the eighteenth century,
i. 301;
general difference between, and Rousseau,
i. 301;
clung to the rationalistic school of his
day, i. 305;
on Rousseau’s second Discourse,
i. 308;
his poem on the earthquake of Lisbon,
i. 309, 310;
his sympathy with suffering, i. 311, 312;
entreated by Rousseau to draw up a civil
profession of religious
faith, i. 317;
denounced by Rousseau as a “trumpet
of impiety,” i. 317, 320,
n.;
his satire and mockery irritated Rousseau,
i. 319;
what he was to his contemporaries, i.
321;
the great play-writer of the time, i.
321;
his criticism of Rousseau’s Letter
on the Theatre, i. 336;
his indignation at wrong, ii. 11;
ridicule of the New Heloisa, ii. 34;
less courageous than Rousseau, ii. 65;
contrast between the two, i. 99, ii. 75;
supposed to have stirred up animosity
at Geneva against Rousseau,