Dusaulx, p. 81. For his quarrel with Rousseau, see pp. 130, etc.

[397] Rulhieres in Dusaulx, p. 179. For a strange interview between
Rulhieres and Rousseau, see pp. 185-186.

[398] Musset-Pathay, i. 181.

[399] _Ib._

[400] Musset-Pathay, i. 209. Rousseau gave a copy of the Confessions
to Moultou, but forbade the publication before the year 1800.
Notwithstanding this, printers procured copies surreptitiously,
perhaps through Theresa, ever in need of money; the first part was
published four years, and the second part with many suppressions
eleven years, after his death, in 1782 and 1789 respectively. See
Musset-Pathay, ii. 464.

[401] Ch. v. Such a curtailment, he says, "would no doubt be a great
evil for the parts dismembered, but it would be a great advantage for
the body of the nation." He urged federation as the condition of any
solid improvement in their affairs.

[402] Bernardin de St. Pierre, xii. 37. Comte had a similar admiration
for Spain and for the same reason.

[403] Corancez, quoted in Musset-Pathay, i. 239. Also _Corr._, vi.
295.

[404] _Corr._, vi. 303.

[405] Robespierre, then a youth, is said to have invited him here. See
Hamel's _Robespierre_, i. 22.

[406] See above, vol. i. pp. 16, 17.

[407] _Corr._, vi. 264.

[408] The case stands thus:--(1) There was the certificate of five
doctors, attesting that Rousseau had died of apoplexy. (2) The
assertion of M. Girardin, in whose house he died, that there was no
hole in his head, nor poison in the stomach or viscera, nor other sign
of self-destruction. (3) The assertion of Theresa to the same effect.
On the other hand, we have the assertion of Corancez, that on his
journey to Ermenonville on the day of Rousseau's burial a horse-master
on the road had said, "Who would have supposed that M. Rousseau would
have destroyed himself!"--and a variety of inferences from the wording
of the certificate, and of Theresa's letter. Musset-Pathay believes in
the suicide, and argued very ingeniously against M. Girardin. But his
arguments do not go far beyond verbal ingenuity, showing that suicide
was possible, and was consistent with the language of the documents,
rather than adducing positive testimony. See vol. i. of his _History_,
pp. 268, etc. The controversy was resumed as late as 1861, between the
_Figaro_ and the _Monde Illustre_. See also M. Jal's _Dict. Crit. de
Biog. et d'Hist._, p. 1091.

INDEX.

ACADEMIES (French) local, i. 132.

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