| ----------------------- | | David. Noah. | |
Isaac (b. 1680-5, d. 1745-7). Jean Francois. | | | -------------- | |
| JEAN JACQUES. Jean. Theodore.

(_Musset-Pathay_, ii. 283.)

[2] Picot's _Hist. de Geneve_, iii. 114.

[3] _Conf._, i. 7.

[4] _Lettre a D'Alembert_, p. 187. Also _Nouv. Hel._, VI. v. 239.

[5] _Conf._, i. 9. Also Second Letter to M. de Malesherbes, p. 356.

[6] _Reveries_, iv. p. 189. "My master and counsellor, Plutarch," he
says, when he lends a volume to Madame d'Epinay in 1756. _Corr._, i.
265.

[7] Dedication of the _Discours sur l'Origine de l'Inegalite_, p. 201.
(June, 1754.)

[8] _Conf._, i. 1.

[9] _Ib_, i. 12.

[10] The tenacity of this grateful recollection is shown in letters to
her (Madame Gonceru)--one in 1754 (_Corr._, i. 204), another as late
as 1770 (vi. 129), and a third in 1762 (_Oeuvr. et Corr. Ined._, 392).

[11] _Conf._, i. 17-32.

[12] See also _Conf._, i. 43; iii. 185; vii. 73; xii. 188, _n._ 2.

[13] _Conf._, i. 27-31.

[14] _Conf._, i. 38-47.

[15] _Lettre a D'Alembert_(1758), 178, 179.

[16] _Reveries_, iv. 211, 212.

[17] _Conf._ 212, 213.

[18] _Conf._, ii. 102, 103.

[19] M. Masseron.

[20] M. Ducommun.

[21] _Conf._, i. 69.

[22] _Conf._, i. 72.

[23] J. Gaberel's _Histoire de l'Eglise de Geneve_ (Geneva, 1853-62),
vol. iii. p. 285.

[24] There is a minute in the register of the company of ministers, to
the effect that the Sieur de Pontverre "is attracting many young men
from this town, and changing their religion, and that the public ought
to be warned." (Gaberel, iii. 224.)

[25] _Conf._, ii. 76.

[26] _Conf._, ii. 77.

[27] _Conf._, ii. 90-97.

[28] _Conf._, ii. 107

[29] See _Emile_, iv. 124, 125, where the youth who was born a
Calvinist, finding himself a stranger in a strange land, without
resource, "changed his religion to get bread."

[30] In the _Confessions_ (ii. 115) he has grace enough to make the
period a month; but the extract from the register of his baptism
(Gaberel's _Hist. de l'Eglise de Geneve_, iii. 224), which has been
recently published, shows that this is untrue: "Jean Jacques Rousseau,
de Geneve (Calviniste), entre a l'hospice a l'age de 16 ans, le 12
avril, 1728. Abjura les erreurs de la secte le 21; et le 23 du meme
mois lui fut administre le saint bapteme, ayant pour parrain le sieur
Andre Ferrero et pour marraine Francoise Christine Rora (ou Rovea)."

A little further on (p. 119) he speaks of having b