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by David Edmonds


  Maiden (Voltaire), 38

  Malesherbes, Lamoignon de, 34, 74, 141, 249

  Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 17–18

  Marischal, Keith George, tenth Earl Marischal, 42–45, 128, 144, 297

  background of, 39

  DH-JJR conflict and, 203–4, 217

  DH’s friendship with, 40, 42–43

  JJR’s correspondence with, 119, 175, 177, 217

  JJR’s relationship with, 39–40, 44, 49, 83, 84, 91, 127, 217, 237, 297

  JJR’s royal pension and, 91, 127, 128, 175, 177

  Marmontel, Jean-François, 188, 199

  Marx, Karl, 140

  Maty, Matthew, 96

  Meinières, Mme de, 184, 190–91, 192

  Memoirs (Rockingham), 96–97

  Memoirs of George III (Walpole), 95, 128

  Millar, Andrew, 25

  Monthly Review, 22, 129, 230, 231

  DH-JJR conflict and, 211, 212

  Montigny, Jean-Charles Trudaine de, 131, 153, 203, 249

  Mont-Louis, 31–32, 35–36, 82

  Montmorency, 28, 32–33, 43, 76, 107, 232, 292

  Morellet, Abbé André, 199, 292

  Morley, John, 228

  Mossner, Ernest Campbell, 71, 74, 90–91

  Môtiers, 38–47, 51, 82, 83, 170, 260

  JJR attacked in, 49–50, 144

  JJR sent money in, 186

  visitors to, 44–47, 271, 294

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 70, 75

  music, 240, 251

  JJR’s talents in, 8, 9, 10, 12, 28–29, 40, 49, 82, 156, 218–19, 253

  My Own Life (Hume), 53, 67, 257, 272

  N

  Natural History of Religion (Hume), 131, 292

  Natural Son, The (Diderot), 29

  nature, 135, 138, 139, 143, 254–55, 262

  JJR’s views on, 2, 28, 34, 120, 124, 138–39, 143, 145, 156

  Necker, Jacques, 44, 204

  Necker, Suzanne (née Curchod), 44, 45, 69, 183

  Neuchâtel, 38–47, 50, 87, 88, 113, 171, 293, 297

  Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), 271

  Nivernois, Duc de, 159, 164

  noblesse de l’épée, 70

  North, Lord, 303

  Nouvelle Héloïse, La, ou Lettres de Deux Amans (Julie) (Rousseau), 33, 45, 73, 110, 130, 168, 204, 262, 290

  in England, 94, 104

  success of, 34, 94

  Nuneham, George Harcourt, Viscount, 96, 173

  O

  O’Brian, Lady Susan, 106–7

  “Of Refinement in the Arts” (Hume), 143

  Of the Spirit (Helvétius), 38

  Ollivier, Michel-Barthelémy, 75

  On the Origins of Inequality Among Men (Rousseau), 12–13, 139

  On the Social Contract (Rousseau), 2, 33, 34, 43, 87, 130, 228

  burning of, 37, 38

  opera, 12, 28–29, 46, 49, 68, 218–19

  Ossory, Lord, 162

  P

  Paris, 52–53, 105, 116–17, 270

  Bastille in, 35, 293

  described, 11–12

  DH in, 2–3, 4, 25, 53, 57, 59–80, 85–90, 93, 96, 126, 162–63, 172, 184–87, 219, 260, 266

  DH-JJR conflict and, 185–87, 198–201, 203–7, 209–11, 214–18

  DH’s double life in, 64–80

  Foundling Hospital in, 11, 12, 230

  JJR in, 2, 8–12, 27, 28–29, 36, 81, 85–90, 102, 126, 172, 187, 228–29, 248–49, 252, 253–54, 255–56, 288, 289, 291, 298

  King of Prussia letter in, 132, 157, 160, 163–64, 188

  London compared with, 102

  Notre Dame in, 254

  Panthéon in, 255–56

  parlement of, 35, 36, 38, 87, 89, 250, 288, 292

  Temple in, 75, 81, 86, 87–88, 184, 218, 252, 256, 287

  Paris, Treaty of, 53, 56–57, 60, 288, 296, 301

  Paris Journal, 163, 164

  Parliament, British, 43, 104, 128

  Peggy (Hume’s maid), 19, 24

  Penneck, Rev. Richard, 96

  Peterborough, 242, 245

  Philidor, François-André, 9

  Philippe, Duc d’Orléans, 70, 289, 290, 291, 294

  philosophes, 8, 28, 88, 130, 161, 207, 254, 266, 287–93

  religious views of, 8, 74–75, 144–45

  at salons, 29, 69, 71, 73, 289

  philosophical history, 21–24

  philosophy, 10–11, 15–16

  DH’s contribution to, 2, 16, 17, 19, 26, 59, 73–74, 146–47, 263–64

  Pitt, Anne, 159

  Pitt, William (“the Elder”) (Earl of Chatham), 211, 214, 219, 236, 297, 298, 301

  Pitt, William (“the Younger”), 299, 303

  Plato, 15

  Pod (dog), 14

  Poker Club, 20, 27

  Political Discourses (Hume), 19, 73

  politics, political theory, 20, 61–64

  DH’s contributions to, 19, 23–24, 25–26, 142

  DH’s problems with, 22, 54, 61–64, 67

  JJR’s contributions to, 4, 7, 9, 33, 34, 87, 138–40, 142, 261

  Pompadour, Mme de, 66, 291

  Pope, Alexander, 16, 99

  Popper, Sir Karl, 263

  Portland, Duke of, 226, 302

  Portland, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Dowager Duchess of, 226, 255, 302

  portrait painting, 1, 119–21, 254, 257, 297–98

  Pottle, Frederick, 118, 168

  Present State of Polite Learning, The (Goldsmith), 68

  press, 129, 172, 244

  DH-JJR conflict and, 211–14

  importance of, 94–96

  King of Prussia letter and, 157–58, 161, 163–67

  Private Correspondence (Hume), 68

  progress, 8, 11, 133–34

  property, 54

  JJR’s views on, 9, 13, 32, 138, 140

  prostitutes, 11–12, 95, 97, 117, 230

  Prussia, 38–40, 83, 126, 139, 297

  psychology, 135–36, 147

  Public Advertiser, 94, 96, 122, 214

  publishing, 22, 44, 48, 82

  Pullein, Elizabeth, 114, 115

  Pullein, James, 114, 115, 302

  R

  Ramsay, Allan, 1, 20, 119–23, 194, 254, 257, 297–98

  reason, 8, 31, 124, 133, 136–38, 144–47, 183, 189, 272–73

  feeling vs., 28, 133

  God and, 144, 145, 146

  Kant’s views on, 140

  relativity theory, 264

  religion:

  DH’s views on, 22, 74–75, 133, 134, 144–47, 257–60

  JJR’s views on, 47, 144–45

  opposition to JJR and, 3, 34, 38, 47, 49, 144

  philosophes and, 8

  see also atheists; Calvinism; Catholicism, Roman

  Republic of Letters, 1, 10, 13, 158, 163, 202, 203

  DH in, 65–75, 183

  JJR’s emigration from, 220–21

  retour chaise affair, 151–52, 154, 156–57, 174, 175, 192–93, 269

  Reveries of a Solitary Walker (Rousseau), 50, 254–55, 269

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 98

  Richardson, Samuel, 59, 66, 94

  Richmond, Duke of, 60, 62–63, 80, 299

  Robertson, William, 20, 26, 67

  Robespierre, Maximilien, 261

  Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 140

  Rochefoucauld, Duc de, 258

  Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of, 63, 96–97, 127–28, 219, 302–3

  Grafton’s service under, 300–301

  Grenville replaced by, 54, 62, 299, 301, 302

  Rohan, Prince Louis de, 66

  Romantic movement, 262

  Rouet, William, 106, 129–30

  Rougement, Josué de, 130–31, 186, 198, 251

  Rousseau, Isaac, 5–6

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1–13, 27–51, 78, 81–134, 136, 138–45, 157–267, 288–302

  as Anglophobe, 40, 43

  arrest threat and, 35–36, 37, 81, 87, 89, 249, 250, 292

  autobiography of, see Confessions

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sp; bladder problem of, 6, 12, 44, 108–9

  botanizing of, 50, 115–16, 156, 222, 223, 226, 247, 252, 255, 272, 294, 302

  burning of books of, 34, 36, 37, 38

  children abandoned by, 11, 12, 49, 230

  conspiracy expected by, see Hume-Rousseau conflict; King of Prussia letter

  as controversial figure, 34–35, 47–51, 120, 127

  death of, 246, 255–56, 291

  DH compared with, 133–34

  DH’s befriending of, see Hume, David, JJR befriended by

  DH’s correspondence with, see Hume, David, JJR’s correspondence with

  DH’s falling-out with, see Hume-Rousseau conflict

  DH’s frustrations with, 98, 105, 105–6, 129–133, 148, 149, 177–79

  DH warned about, 90, 126, 184, 291

  as dramatist, 8, 9, 10, 49, 85

  education of, 6

  emotions of, 3–4, 28, 33, 34, 76, 169

  in essay competitions, 10–13

  fame of, 8, 10, 13, 87–89, 92–96, 99–101, 121, 266

  family background and childhood of, 5–7

  in flight from Wootton Hall, 234, 239–47

  as Geneva citizen, 7, 12, 37–38, 47

  home life of, 45–46, 108

  illness of, 30, 43, 91, 96, 108, 130, 131, 187, 267

  independence of, 12, 28, 32, 38, 39–40, 82, 91, 109, 140–41, 151, 156

  intellectual character of, 2, 147–48

  journey to England of, 1–4, 90–92, 172, 173, 187, 266

  Le Vasseur’s relationship with, see Le Vasseur, Thérèse

  love interests and lusts of, 28, 34, 107, 109

  musical talents of, 8, 9, 10, 12, 28–29, 40, 49, 82, 156, 218–19, 253

  occupations of, 7, 8, 9

  persecution complex, paranoia, and madness of, 3, 4, 6, 7, 30, 89, 157, 172, 189, 238, 246, 247, 249, 250, 251–54, 262, 272

  as philosopher, 133

  physical appearance of, 1, 12, 28, 43–44, 45, 86, 96, 119, 121, 241, 245, 265

  posthumous reputation of, 261–62

  as pre-Romantic, 138, 262, 294

  radicalism of, 2, 4, 10–13, 33, 33–34, 37, 47, 138

  Ramsay’s portrait of, 1, 119–21, 194, 254, 257, 298

  reading of, 133, 156

  as refugee, 2–4, 35–51, 80–94, 107–8, 211, 213

  religious conversions of, 7, 12

  religious opposition to, 3, 33, 38, 47, 49, 144

  retour chaise affair and, 151–52, 154, 156–57, 174, 192–93

  sexuality of, 6, 7, 109, 118, 230

  solitude of, 3, 13, 27–28, 29, 40, 46, 123–24, 132–33, 140, 143, 153, 156, 202, 267

  turning point of, 9–11

  vanity of, 188, 208, 231, 261–62

  will of, 108

  withdrawal from life of letters by, 220–21

  writing habits of, 10

  writing style of, 187–89, 192

  as yahoo, 209, 213

  see also specific works

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, finances of, 13, 81–84, 107, 127–31

  DH’s investigation of, 130–31, 186, 198–99, 201, 267

  in Paris, 8, 9, 10, 12

  royal pensions and, 12, 41, 91, 127, 128–29, 131, 149, 175–78, 184, 186, 188, 194, 195, 201, 202, 219, 236–37, 239–41, 253, 267

  self-sufficiency and, 28, 39–40, 82, 141, 151

  Rousseau, Susan Bernard, 5–6

  Rousseau Juge de Jean-Jacques (Rousseau), 254

  Royal Archive at Windsor, 204

  Royal Library at Windsor, 193

  Russell, Bertrand, 250, 263

  S

  St. Clair, James, 17–18

  St. James’s Chronicle, 87, 117, 164–69

  DH-JJR conflict and, 211, 212–13

  King of Prussia letter and, 161, 164–65, 166, 171, 187

  V.T.h.S.W. letter in, 168

  Salon of Four Mirrors, 65, 75

  salons, 3, 10, 13, 29, 31, 66, 68–71, 268, 288–93

  all-male, 73–74, 183

  Schlick, Moritz, 264

  science, 10, 143, 260–61, 291

  Scipio Africanus, 26

  Scotland, 18–22, 24–25, 39, 66, 119, 144, 298

  England’s union with, 19–20

  French relations with, 39, 57

  Jacobite uprising in, 39, 297

  see also Edinburgh

  Scottish Enlightenment, 20, 295, 298

  Select Society, 20, 119, 296, 297

  self-sufficiency, 138–41

  of JJR, 28, 39–40, 82, 141, 151

  Selwyn, George, 72

  Seneca, 207

  senses, 134–35, 136

  Sentiment des citoyens sur les lettres écrites de la montagne (Views of the Citizens over Letters Written from the Mountain) (Voltaire), 48–49, 293

  Seven Years’ War, 53, 56–57, 100, 104, 127, 300

  end of, 288, 301–2; see also Paris, Treaty of

  Shelburne, Earl of, 24–25

  Shelley, Mary, 262

  Shelley, Percy, 262

  Shklar, Judith, 125

  silk, 104–5

  skepticism, 8

  of Hume, 53, 67, 74, 123, 134–36, 146, 147, 148, 260–61

  Smith, Adam, 20, 142, 144, 149, 297, 298

  DH-JJR conflict and, 177, 185–86, 201, 206

  DH’s correspondence with, 63, 66, 185–86, 243, 248, 257

  DH’s death and, 259–60

  DH’s friendship with, 2, 15, 265–66

  DH’s misreading and, 177, 201

  as professor, 17, 106, 294, 298

  proposed as DH’s literary executor, 257–58

  Smollett, Tobias George, 95, 298

  Socrates, 15, 86

  Spain, 56, 57, 61, 297

  Spalding, 234, 241–45

  “Spalding in Lincoshire sic le 5 May 1767, A” (Rousseau), 241

  Staël, Mme de, 44, 169

  Staffordshire, 123, 155, 219, 228, 233

  see also Wootton Hall

  Stamp Act, 127–28, 299, 301, 302

  Stanton, 222–23

  Sterne, Laurence, 65, 66

  Stewart, John, 66, 83, 103

  Strachey, Lytton, 31, 262, 265

  Strahan, Sir William, 207–8, 258–59, 269

  Strasbourg, 83, 84, 126, 229

  Strawberry Hill, 78, 159, 303

  Stuart, John, see Bute, John Stuart, Earl of

  Suard, Amélie, 183

  Suard, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine, 71, 74, 183, 186, 206–7, 292

  Sultan (Rousseau’s dog), 154, 225, 240, 242, 245, 266

  disappearances of, 121–22, 252

  JJR’s attachment to, 2, 3–4, 44, 50, 85, 86, 90–91, 98, 105, 149, 171, 238, 271

  running of, 80, 83, 91

  Switzerland, 3, 36–51, 87, 88, 108, 144, 187, 251, 253, 296

  censorship in, 47, 48, 290

  T

  Tacitus, 207

  Talleyrand, vii

  taxes, 57, 114, 127–28, 302

  Teleki, Joseph, 109

  Tencin, Mme de, 287

  theater:

  in Geneva, 29–30

  JJR’s views on, 29–30, 32, 101, 143

  JJR’s writing for, 8, 9, 10, 49, 85

  in London, 93, 97–102

  Times (London), 97

  Tolstoy, Leo, 262

  Tonton (dog), 56, 289

  Tories, 23, 24

  Tour to London, A (Grosley), 103

  Townshend, Mr. and Mrs., 105, 111

  Tragedy of Zara, The (Hill), 99, 101

  translation, 59, 73, 74, 99, 206, 292, 293

  Treatise of Human Nature (Hume), 16, 17, 134, 136, 143, 263

  Tronchin, François, 294

  Tronchin, Jean-Robert, 38, 48, 294

  Tronchin, Louis-François, 106, 116, 132, 170, 172, 194, 237, 294–95

  Tronchin, Théodore, 30, 87, 106, 116, 170, 172, 290, 294, 295

  Turc (Rousseau’s dog), 33

  Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, Baron de l’Aulne, 71, 74, 248–49, 292–93

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p; DH-J-JR conflict and, 199, 201–2, 214

  Turin, 7, 17, 18, 10—21, 230

  V

  Vercellis, Mme de, 231

  Verdelin, Mme de, 81–85, 206, 293

  JJR’s correspondence with, 82, 85, 89–90, 171–75, 187

  Versailles, 75

  Vienna, 17–18

  Vienna Circle, 263, 264

  Vincennes prison, 9–10

  Virgil, 18

  Visits to Remarkable Places (Howitt), 223

  Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 38, 56, 88, 191, 201, 256, 293, 295, 298

  Deffand’s correspondence with, 70, 289

  DH-JJR conflict and, 210–11, 213

  on DH’s work, 21

  as dramatist, 30, 99

  in Geneva, 29–30

  on JJR, 197, 233

  JJR’s break with, 48–49

  JJR’s correspondence with, 13, 32, 139

  King of Prussia letter and, 132, 160, 161

  V.T.h.S.W. letter, 168

  W

  Wales, 105, 113, 119, 122, 132

  Walpole, Horace, 23, 54–58, 61, 70, 77, 128, 154, 190, 241, 252, 301, 303

  Conway’s relationship with, 54, 219, 299

  DH-JJR conflict and, 194, 200, 206, 212, 213, 218

  DH’s correspondence with, 209–10

  on JJR’s departure for England, 90

  King of Prussia letter and, 158–64, 166, 171, 172, 178, 194, 200, 202, 206, 212, 213, 218, 268, 270

  Macaulay on, 52, 154

  Mme de Boufflers and, 75, 77–78

  on newspapers, 95

  on Paris, 52, 56, 57–58, 63–64, 66, 71–72, 86

  Walpole, Sir Robert, 55, 299, 301, 303

  Walton, Benjamin, 227

  Warburton, Nigel, 120, 121

  Warens, Mme de, 5, 7–8, 31, 136, 252, 295

  War of the Austrian Succession, 17–18

  Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 257, 298

  Whigs, 22, 23, 24, 296, 299–303

  Wilkes, John, 87, 117, 119, 159, 296, 301

  women, French:

  DH’s reception from, 68–73, 83

  intellectual attributes of, 68

  JJR as viewed by, 88

  as salon hosts, 69–71, 75

  Wood, Robert, 53, 211

  Wootton Hall, 154–57, 169–72, 179, 182, 187, 211, 219–47, 252, 299

  DH’s failure to visit, 198

  DH’s investigation of, 123

  JJR’s flight from, 234, 239–47, 251

  JJR’s impressions of, 155–56, 169, 221

  JJR’s neighbors at, 224–26, 255, 272, 298, 301, 302

  legends about JJR at, 222–23

  servants at, 223, 227, 233, 239

  transport to, 151, 154

  writing of Confessions at, 228–32

  Wright, Joseph, 227

 

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