[353] Tronchin, for instance, in a letter to Rousseau, in M. Streckeisen-Moultou’s collection, i. 325.

[354] A troop of comedians had been allowed to play for a short time in Geneva, with many protests, during the mediation of 1738.  In 1766, eight years after Rousseau’s letter, the government gave permission for the establishment of a theatre in the town.  It was burnt down in 1768, and Voltaire spitefully hinted that the catastrophe was the result of design, instigated by Rousseau (Corr. v. 299, April 26, 1768).  The theatre was not re-erected until 1783, when the oligarchic party regained the ascendancy and brought back with them the drama, which the democrats in their reign would not permit.

[355] Lettre a J.J.  Rousseau, pp. 265-271.

[356] Oeuv., x. 121.

[357] To Thieriot, Sept. 17, 1758.  To D’Alembert, Oct. 20, 1761. Ib. March 19, 1761.

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ROUSSEAU

BY

JOHN MORLEY

VOL.  II.

London
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1905

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First printed in this form 1886 Reprinted 1888, 1891, 1896, 1900, 1905

CONTENTS OF VOL.  II.

CHAPTER I.

MONTMORENCY—­THE NEW HELOISA.

Conditions preceding the composition of the New Heloisa 1

The Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg 2

Rousseau and his patrician acquaintances 4

Peaceful life at Montmorency 9

Equivocal prudence occasionally shown by Rousseau 12

His want of gratitude for commonplace service 13

Bad health, and thoughts of suicide 16

Episode of Madame Latour de Franqueville 17

Relation of the New Heloisa to Rousseau’s general doctrine 20

Action of the first part of the story 25

Contrasted with contemporary literature 25

And with contemporary manners 27

Criticism of the language and principal actors 28, 29

Popularity of the New Heloisa 31

Its reactionary intellectual direction 33

Action of the second part 35, 36

Its influence on Goethe and others 38

Distinction between Rousseau and his school 40

Singular pictures of domesticity 42

Sumptuary details 44

The slowness of movement in the work justified 46

Exaltation of marriage 47

Equalitarian tendencies 49

Not inconsistent with social quietism 51

Compensation in the political consequences of the triumph of sentiment 54