personality, against the gregarious trifling of life in the social groove, has a side which it is not ill for us to consider, and perhaps for some men and women in every generation to seek to imitate. FOOTNOTES: [201] _Rép. à M. Bordes_, 163. [202] Pictet de Sergy., i. 18. [203] _Conf._, iv. 248. [204] _Ib._ ix. 279. Also _Economie Politique_. [205] Madame de la Popelinière, whose adventures and the misadventures of her husband are only too well known to the reader of Marmontel's Memoirs. [206] The passages 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 Encyclopædia. 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] _Réveries_, iii 168. [212] _Rêveries_, iii. 166. [213] See the _Epître à Mdme. la Marquise du Châtelet, sur la Calomnie_. [214] _La Femme au 18ième siècle_, par MM. de Goncourt, p. 40. [215] Madame d'Epinay's _Mém._, i. 295. [216] Quoted in Goncourt's _Femme au 18ième siècle_, p. 378. [217] _Ib._, p. 337. [218] Mdlle. L'Espinasse's _Letters_, ii. 89. [219] Madame d'Epinay's _Mém._, ii. 47, 48. [220] _Ib._, ii. 55. [221] _Mém._, Bk. iv. 327. [222] _Corr. Lit._, iii. 58. [223] _Ib._, 54. [224] Madame d'Epinay's _Mém._, i. 378-381. Saint Lambert formulated his atheism afterwards in the _Catéchisme Universel_. [225] Madame d'Epinay's _Mém._, i. 443. [226] _Corr._, i. 317. Sept. 14, 1756. [227] Letter to Madame de Créqui, 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. Inéd._, p. 434. [233] Madame de Staël 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 Chambéri 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 Conzié to Rousseau, in M. Streckeisen-Moultou's collection, ii. 445. [237] _Conf._, xii. 233. [238] _Conf._, viii. 210.