Page:The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1896, vol. 2.djvu/16

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Performance of the Devin du Village before the King—Its overwhelming success
112
Summoned to the Château to be presented to the King—Declines the honour—Reasons for his strange conduct
113
Diderot endeavours to persuade him to accept a pension from the King, but without success
115
Diderot and Grimm commence their conspiracy
116
The incident of the unpublished music—Treachery of the Baron d’Holbach—Accused of plagiarism
117
Rivalry between the partisans of the French and Italian styles of music—The “King’s corner” and “Queen’s corner”
118
Plot to assassinate Rousseau owing to his “Lettre sur la Musique”—Shameful conduct of the Opera management
119
Demands the return of his opera, but without success
120
The Baron d’Holbach treats him with great brutality
121
Narcisse is anonymously performed at the Comédie Française—Failure—Confesses himself the author of it
122
The “Origin of Inequality amongst Mankind” proposed for discussion by the Academy of Dijon—Writes an essay on the subject
123
Discards physicians and determines to live as he pleases
124
Travels with Theresa and Gauffecourt to Geneva—Disgraceful conduct of Gauffecourt
125
Again sees Madame de Warens—Her fallen position and distress
126
Abjures the Catholic faith and returns to Protestantism at Geneva—Reasons
127
Returns to Paris—Coolness of the Genevese at the “Discourse on Inequality”
130
Madame d’Epinay offers him the Hermitage 131
Voltaire settles at Geneva—Effect upon Rousseau
132
Death of Madame d’Holbach and of Madame Francueil
133
Visited by Venture de Villeneuve—Changed condition
134
Palissot endeavours to curry favour with the King of Poland at the expense of Rousseau—Punishment—Rousseau pleads for him
135
Takes up his residence at the Hermitage—The “Holbachian clique”: their ridicule—Reflections
137
Delight with the Hermitage—Plans for future work: the “Institutions Politiques”; “Selections” from the works of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre; “La Morale Sensitive”; “Dictionary of Music”
139
Obliged to pay court to Madame d’Epinay—Its inconvenience
147
Pleasant life at the Hermitage—Reflections upon Thérèse
149