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Performance of the Devin du Village before the King—Its overwhelming success
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112 |
Summoned to the Château to be presented to the King—Declines the honour—Reasons for his strange conduct
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113 |
Diderot endeavours to persuade him to accept a pension from the King, but without success
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115 |
Diderot and Grimm commence their conspiracy
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116 |
The incident of the unpublished music—Treachery of the Baron d’Holbach—Accused of plagiarism
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117 |
Rivalry between the partisans of the French and Italian styles of music—The “King’s corner” and “Queen’s corner”
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118 |
Plot to assassinate Rousseau owing to his “Lettre sur la Musique”—Shameful conduct of the Opera management
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119 |
Demands the return of his opera, but without success
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120 |
The Baron d’Holbach treats him with great brutality
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121 |
Narcisse is anonymously performed at the Comédie Française—Failure—Confesses himself the author of it
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122 |
The “Origin of Inequality amongst Mankind” proposed for discussion by the Academy of Dijon—Writes an essay on the subject
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123 |
Discards physicians and determines to live as he pleases
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124 |
Travels with Theresa and Gauffecourt to Geneva—Disgraceful conduct of Gauffecourt
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125 |
Again sees Madame de Warens—Her fallen position and distress
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126 |
Abjures the Catholic faith and returns to Protestantism at Geneva—Reasons
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127 |
Returns to Paris—Coolness of the Genevese at the “Discourse on Inequality”
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130 |
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Voltaire settles at Geneva—Effect upon Rousseau
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132 |
Death of Madame d’Holbach and of Madame Francueil
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133 |
Visited by Venture de Villeneuve—Changed condition
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134 |
Palissot endeavours to curry favour with the King of Poland at the expense of Rousseau—Punishment—Rousseau pleads for him
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135 |
Takes up his residence at the Hermitage—The “Holbachian clique”: their ridicule—Reflections
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137 |
Delight with the Hermitage—Plans for future work: the “Institutions Politiques”; “Selections” from the works of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre; “La Morale Sensitive”; “Dictionary of Music”
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139 |
Obliged to pay court to Madame d’Epinay—Its inconvenience
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147 |
Pleasant life at the Hermitage—Reflections upon Thérèse
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149 |
