[4] _Lettre à D'Alembert_, p. 187. Also _Nouv. Hél._, VI. v. 239. [5] _Conf._, i. 9. Also Second Letter to M. de Malesherbes, p. 356. [6] _Rêveries_, 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'Inégalité_, 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. Inéd._, 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 à D'Alembert_(1758), 178, 179. [16] _Rêveries_, 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'Église de Genève_ (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 _Émile_, 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'Église de Genève_, iii. 224), which has been recently published, shows that this is untrue: "Jean Jacques Rousseau, de Genève (Calviniste), entré à l'hospice à l'âge de 16 ans, le 12 avril, 1728. Abjura les erreurs de la secte le 21; et le 23 du même mois lui fut administré le saint baptême, ayant pour parrain le sieur André Ferrero et pour marraine Françoise 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. [35] Bacle, by name. [36] _Conf._, iii. 168. [37] _Conf._, iii. 170. A slightly idealised account of the situation is given in _Émile_, Bk. iv. 125. CHAPTER III. SAVOY.