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| Birth of Rousseau | 2 |
| Family of Rousseau | 2 |
| Death of his mother | 3 |
| Childhood—His love for reading | 4 |
| His brother runs away from home | 6 |
Ascribes his passion for music to his aunt Suson
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7 |
His father is compelled to leave Geneva owing to a quarrel with a French captain
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9 |
Rousseau is sent to Bossey with his cousin Bernard to be educated by the Protestant minister Lambercier
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9 |
| His attachment to his cousin Bernard | 10 |
Mademoiselle Lambercier—Curious mode of punishment—Its effects
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11 |
| Precocious sensuality | 13 |
The incident of the combs—Accused of breaking them—Obstinacy—Severe punishment—Reflections
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15 |
Anecdote of the walnut-tree and the aqueduct
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19 |
Returns to Geneva with his cousin Bernard—Their boyish amusements
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22 |
A youthful lover—Mademoiselle de Vuslson—Mademoiselle Goton
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24 |
Placed with M. Masseron to learn the business of an attorney—Dismissed in disgrace
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27 |
| Apprenticed to M. Ducommun, an engraver | 28 |
| Brutality of his master—Its effect | 29 |
Incited to steal by a fellow-workman—The asparagus—The apples—Reflections
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30 |
| Contempt for money | 35 |
| M. de Francueil—The incident at the Opera | 36 |
Taste for reading renewed—Disposes of his clothing to pay for the loan of books—Neglects his work for the sake of reading
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37 |
Exhausts La Tribu’s stock of books—Effect of so much reading upon his mind
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38 |
Shut out of the city with his fellow-apprentices—Determines to run away from his master
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40 |
| Reflects upon his condition | 43 |
Wandering life—Reaches Confignon—Kindly treated by M. de Pontverre, the curé
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44 |
