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| Reflections concerning the Confessions | 1 |
Stays at Lyons on the way to Paris to visit acquaintances
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4 |
Mademoiselle Serre— Rousseau’s attachment to her
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6 |
| Arrives at Paris | 7 |
Introduced to the Academy of Sciences by M. de Réaumur
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8 |
A commission is appointed to examine the musical system, and they declare it “not new”
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9 |
| Rameau’s criticism of the system | 10 |
| Difficulties of getting his system published | 11 |
| Failure of his system of musical notation | 12 |
| Indolent life at Paris | 13 |
Advised by Father Castel to “Try the women”— Mesdames Dupin, de Beuzenval, and de Broglie
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14 |
| Description of Madame Dupin | 16 |
Declares his passion for her and is repulsed—M. de Francueil
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18 |
Serious illness—During his delirium conceives the idea of composing an opera
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19 |
Convalescence—Composes the opera, Les Muses Galantes
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20 |
The Comte de Montaigu appointed ambassador at Venice—Rousseau becomes his secretary and sets out for Venice
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21 |
Plague at Messina—Quarantine at Genoa—Residence and experiences in the lazaretto
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22 |
Arrives at Venice—Duties as ambassadorial secretary
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24 |
| Meanness of M. de Montaigu | 25 |
The ambassador’s carelessness with regards to the duties of his office
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26 |
Rousseau performs the duties of ambassador—Veronese the actor—Captain Olivet and his vessel
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28 |
| Careless conduct—The bill of exchange | 31 |
Renders the house of Bourbon a service by forwarding an important despatch—Anger of M. de Montaigu
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33 |
The ambassador’s household—Domenico Vitali
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34 |
Vitali conspires to obtain Rousseau’s dismissal
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35 |
