[77] Rousseau's description of Les Charmettes is at the end of the fifth book. The present proprietor keeps the house arranged as it used to be, and has gathered one or two memorials of its famous tenant, including his poor _clavecin_ and his watch. In an outside wall, Hérault de Sechelles, when Commissioner from the Convention in the department of Mont Blanc, inserted a little white stone with two most lapidary stanzas inscribed upon it, about _génie, solitude, fierté, gloire, vérité, envie_, and the like. [78] _Rêveries_, x. 336 (1778). [79] _Conf._, vi. 393. [80] _Conf._, vi. 412. [81] _Mém. de Mdme. d'Epinay_, i. 394. (M. Boiteau's edition: Charpentier. 1865.) [82] _Conf._, vi. 399. [83] _Ib._ vi. 424. Goethe made a similar experiment; see Mr. Lewes's _Life_, p. 126. [84] Bernardin de Saint Pierre tells us this. _Oeuvres_ (Ed. 1818), xii. 70, etc. [85] _Conf._, iv. 297. See also the description of the scenery of the Valais, in the _Nouv. Hél._, Pt. I. Let. xxiii. [86] George Sand in _Mademoiselle la Quintinie_ (p. 27), a book containing some peculiarly subtle appreciations of the Savoy landscape. [87] _Conf._, iv. 298. [88] _Conf._, vi. 416, 422, etc.; iii. 164; iii. 203; v. 347; v. 383, 384. Also vii. 53. [89] _Conf._, v. 313, 367; iv. 293; ix. 353. Also _Mém. de Mdme. d'Epinay_, ii. 151. [90] _Ib._ iii. 192, 193. [91] _Conf._, iv. 301; iii. 195. [92] _Conf._, v. 372, 373. The mistaken date assigned to the correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick is one of many instances how little we can trust the Confessions for minute accuracy, though their substantial veracity is confirmed by all the collateral evidence that we have. [93] _Ib._ iii. 188. For his debt in the way of education to Madame de Warens, see also _Ib._ vii. 46. [94] _Conf._, vi. 409. [95] _Ib._ vi. 413. He adds a suspicious-looking "_et cetera_." [96] _Conf._, vi. 414 [97] _Conf._, iv. 295. See also v. 346. [98] _Corr._, 1736, pp. 26, 27. [99] _Conf._, iv. 271, where he says further that he never found enough attraction in French poetry to make him think of pursuing it. [100] The first part of the Confessions was written in Wootton in Derbyshire, in the winter of 1766-1767. [101] _Conf._, vi. 422. [102] _Corr._, i. 43, 46, 62, etc. [103] Musset-Pathay, i. 23, _n._ CHAPTER IV. THERESA LE VASSEUR.