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.