Page:The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1896, vol. 1.djvu/23

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CONTENTS OF VOL. I


BOOK I

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Birth of Rousseau 2
Family of Rousseau 2
Death of his mother 3
Childhood—His love for reading 4
His brother runs away from home 6
Ascribes his passion for music to his aunt Suson
7
His father is compelled to leave Geneva owing to a quarrel with a French captain
9
Rousseau is sent to Bossey with his cousin Bernard to be educated by the Protestant minister Lambercier
9
His attachment to his cousin Bernard 10
Mademoiselle Lambercier—Curious mode of punishment—Its effects
11
Precocious sensuality 13
The incident of the combs—Accused of breaking them—Obstinacy—Severe punishment—Reflections
15
Anecdote of the walnut-tree and the aqueduct
19
Returns to Geneva with his cousin Bernard—Their boyish amusements
22
A youthful lover—Mademoiselle de Vuslson—Mademoiselle Goton
24
Placed with M. Masseron to learn the business of an attorney—Dismissed in disgrace
27
Apprenticed to M. Ducommun, an engraver 28
Brutality of his master—Its effect 29
Incited to steal by a fellow-workman—The asparagus—The apples—Reflections
30
Contempt for money 35
M. de Francueil—The incident at the Opera 36
Taste for reading renewed—Disposes of his clothing to pay for the loan of books—Neglects his work for the sake of reading
37
Exhausts La Tribu’s stock of books—Effect of so much reading upon his mind
38
Shut out of the city with his fellow-apprentices—Determines to run away from his master
40
Reflects upon his condition 43
Wandering life—Reaches Confignon—Kindly treated by M. de Pontverre, the curé
44