Page:The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1896, vol. 2.djvu/15

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The Comtesse d’Houdetot 76
Diderot—Roguin—The Abbe de Condillac 77
D’Alembert—Diderot and D’Alembert undertake the “Dictionnaire Encyclopédique”—Imprisonment of Diderot—Its cause—Rousseau writes to Madame de Pompadour to obtain his release
78
Becomes acquainted with Grimm 80
Visits Diderot—His emotion 81
Determines to write an essay on the subject proposed by the Academy of Dijon: “Has the progress of the arts and sciences contributed more to the corruption or purification of morals?”
82
Manner of working on his essay—Its completion
83
Sets up his own establishment with Thérèse and her parents—Their tranquil life
84
Affair of Klüpfel, Grimm, and Rousseau with a girl
86
The essay gains the prize at Dijon—Effects 87
The author defends his conduct towards his children
88
Third child left at the Foundling Hospital—The next two disposed of in the same manner
89
Treachery of Madame le Vasseur 90
Becomes cashier to the Receiver-General of Finance—Unfitness for the position
92
Serious illness—The cause of his continued ill-health—His life despaired of—Reflections
93
Becomes a copyist of music and abandons his former mode of life
95
Robbed of his linen by the brother of Thérèse 96
The essay severely criticised by the defenders of literature—King Stanislaus and Rousseau
98
Bitter enmity of M. Bordes of Lyons 99
Becomes the fashion, and is visited by numbers of people—Refuses all presents
100
Domestic annoyances—Paris becomes distasteful—Causes of his outward unsociability
101
Introduces Grimm to his friends—The Abbé Raynal
102
Grimm and Mademoiselle Fel—Her disdain—Grimm feigns illness—Its result
103
The Baron d’Holbach—M. Duclos 104
Madame la Marquise de Créqui—M. Saurin 105
M. Mussard—His strange mania and painful end
106
Composes the Devin du Village 108
Success of the opera—Quarrel between MM. de Cury and Duclos concerning it
109
Journeys to Fontainebleau in a royal carriage to witness its performance—Incident in the café
110