[124] Oeuv. et Corr.  Ined., 365.

[125] Conf., vii. 102.  See also Corr., v. 373 (Oct. 10, 1768).  On the other hand, Conf., ix. 249.

[126] M. St. Marc Girardin, in one of his admirable papers on Rousseau, speaks of him as “a bourgeois unclassed by an alliance with a tavern servant” (Rev. des Deux Mondes, Nov. 1852, p. 759); but surely Rousseau had unclassed himself long before, in the houses of Madame Vercellis, Count Gouvon, and even Madame de Warens, and by his repudiation, from the time when he ran away from Geneva, of nearly every bourgeois virtue and bourgeois prejudice.

[127] Conf., vii. 11.  Also footnote.

[128] Reveries, ix. 309.

[129] Conf., viii. 142, 143.

[130] The other day I came for the first time upon the following in the sayings of Madame de Lambert:—­“Ce ne sont pas toujours les fautes qui nous perdent; c’est la maniere de se conduire apres les avoir faites.” [1877.]

[131] Conf., xii. 187, 188.

[132] Ib., viii. 221.

[133] Bernardin de St. Pierre, Oeuv., xii. 103.  See Conf., xii 188, and Corr., v. 324.

[134] Referring, no doubt, to the ceremony which he called their marriage, and which had taken place in 1768.

[135] Corr., vi. 79-86.  August 12, 1769.

[136] Composed in 1745.  The Fetes de Ramire was represented at Versailles at the very end of this year.

[137] Some time in 1746-7. Conf., vii. 113, 114.

[138] Probably in the winter of 1746-7. Corr., ii. 207. Conf., vii. 120-124. Ib., viii. 148. Corr., ii. 208.  June 12, 1761, to the Marechale de Luxembourg.

[139] George Sand,—­in an eloquent piece entitled A Propos des Charmettes (Revue des Deux Mondes, November 15, 1863), in which she expresses her own obligations to Jean Jacques.  In 1761 Rousseau declares that he had never hitherto had the least reason to suspect Theresa’s fidelity. Corr., ii. 209

[140] Conf., vii. 123.

[141] Ib., viii. 145-151.

[142] Reveries, ix. 313.  The same reason is given, Conf., ix. 252; also in Letter to Madame B., January 17, 1770 (Corr., vi. 117).

[143] Corr., vi. 152, 153.  Feb. 27, 1770.

[144] Letter to Madame de Francueil, April 20, 1751. Corr., i. 151.

[145] Corr., i. 151-155

[146] August 10, 1761. Corr., ii. 220.  The Marechale de Luxembourg’s note on the subject, to which this is a reply, is given in Rousseau, ses Amis et ses Ennemis, i. 444.

[147] Conf., x. 249.  See above, p. 106, n.

[148] To Lalliaud, Aug 31, 1768. Corr., v. 324.  See also D’Escherny, quoted in Musset-Pathay, i. 169, 170.

[149] To Du Peyrou, Sept. 26, 1768. Corr., v. 360.