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Académie de Dijon (Dijon Academy), 10–13

Adam, Robert, 259

Albon, Comtesse d', 291

Alembert, Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d', 34, 71, 74, 80, 89, 152, 153, 287, 295

de L'Espinasse's relationship with, 71, 287, 289, 291

DH-JJR conflict and, 185, 199–200, 203, 206–7, 209, 213, 268

DH's correspondence with, 183, 185, 199–200, 200, 203, 204

JJR's clash with, 29–30

King of Prussia letter and, 161, 165, 172, 200, 206–7

at salons, 73, 75, 289

American Revolution, 258, 299, 303

amour de soi,
138–39

amour propre,
138–39, 266

animals, humans compared with, 137–38, 139

Animula
(Eliot), 5

Annan dale, Marquess of, 17, 113

Aristotle, 271

Arty, Mme de, 288

atheists, 74, 144, 145, 288, 291

Augusta, Dowager Princess, 296

Augustine, Saint, 229, 230

Ayer, Sir Freddie, 264

Bagehot, Walter, 55

Baldwin, Henry, 165

Bally, Henri, 291

Barbantane, Marquise de, 79, 152

DH's correspondence with, 112, 121, 122, 126, 131, 162, 163, 204

Beaumont, Christophe de, 47

bel esprit
, 77, 79

Berlin, 83, 251

Bernard (Rousseau's cousin), 6, 7, 238

Bernardine monks, 71

Berne, canton of, 50–51, 87

Blacklock, Thomas, 20

Blair, Rev. Hugh, 20, 295

DH's correspondence with, 63, 67, 74, 86, 122, 132–33, 145, 148, 149, 151–52, 176–77, 184–85, 191, 241, 295

book burning, 34, 36, 38, 290

booksellers, 34, 84

in London, 22, 94, 104, 171

Boothby, Sir Brooke, 165, 226, 227, 237, 253, 298

Boston, 234, 242, 245

Boswell, James, 100, 112, 168, 189, 214, 258, 260, 295–96, 302

Le Vasseur's relationship with, 46–47, 107, 109, 112, 117–19

in Môtiers, 45–47, 271

botany, 226, 302

JJR's interest in, 50, 115–16, 156, 222, 223, 226, 247, 252, 255, 272, 294, 302

Boufflers, Duc de, 292

Boufflers, Mme de (Comtesse de Boufflers-Rouverel), 36, 42, 65, 75–80, 87–88, 90, 230, 235, 248, 287–88

Confessions
and, 254

as Conti's mistress, 75, 76, 79, 200, 287, 288–89

DH-JJR link and, 35, 40–41, 75, 266, 288

DH's correspondence with, 40–41, 76–79, 91, 105, 121, 125–26, 127, 130–31, 132, 152, 160, 161, 163–64, 165, 177, 177–78, 184, 193, 198, 200–201, 213, 215–19, 241, 248, 256, 257, 259, 267, 270, 288

DH's relationship with, 75–76, 76–80, 199, 270, 288

JJR's correspondence with, 38, 118, 160, 171, 213, 216–17, 228, 259

JJR's finances and, 127, 130–31, 199, 201, 267

King of Prussia letter and, 132, 159–65, 206

marriage of, 75, 287

“Rule of Life” of, 76, 183, 268

Boufflers-Rouverel, édouard, Comte de, 75, 79, 287

Brady, Frank, 118

Brand, Sir Thomas, 58, 162

British Museum, 207

Brunswick, Prince of, 96

Buccleuch, Duke of, 185, 298

Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 103

Bunbury, Lady Sarah, 106–7, 299

Bunbury, Sir Charles, 53, 60, 62, 299

Burke, Edmund, 22, 224, 260, 261–62, 303

Burney, Charles, 218

Burton, John Hill, 115–16

Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 20, 23, 25, 57, 61, 63, 115, 296, 297, 301

Byng, Admiral, 56

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 262

Calais, 91, 160, 173, 250

Calvin, John, 7

Calvinism, 7, 12, 29, 49

Calwich Abbey, 224–26, 300, 301

Camden, Lord, 241

Canada, 17, 56

Catherine the Great, 290

Catholicism, Roman, 5, 67, 144, 145, 295

cats, dogs vs., 271

cause and effect, 135, 260–61

censorship:

in France, 9, 34, 48, 74, 290

in Geneva, 47, 48

in Scotland, 20

Cerjat, Jean-François-Maximilian, 238, 242

Charlemont, Lord, 18, 68, 130

Charles I, King of England, 21, 22, 23

Charles II, King of England, 54

Charles X, King of France, 66

Charlotte Sophia, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 98, 100–101, 204, 224, 297, 300

Chenonceaux, Mme de, 173

Cheshire, 227, 235, 238–40

children, 229

JJR's abandonment of own, 11, 12, 49, 230

upbringing of, 2, 32, 33—34, 94, 140

Chiswick, 106, 111–16, 118, 119, 151, 156, 239, 296, 302

Choiseul, étienne-François, Comte de Stainville, Duc de, 57, 60, 89, 288

Chute, John, 159

cicisbeo,
79

cities:

DH's views on, 143–44

JJR's views on, 11, 27, 42, 102, 105, 112, 113, 143, 222

civilization:

corrupting influence of, 10

DH on benefits of, 143

Clairaut, Alexis-Claude, 81–83

Clarissa
(Richardson), 59

Coindet, François, 204, 271

Coke, Lady Mary, 90

Cole, Rev. Mr., 160–61

Collins, J. Churton, 107

Colombiers, 42

Comedian, The
(Fielding), 94

Concise Account
(Hume), 193, 208, 212, 218, 270

Confessions
(Augustine), 229

Confessions
(Rousseau), 2, 5, 7, 11, 31, 37, 49, 127, 261, 262

controversy in, 34–35

DH's concerns about, 191, 218

friendship in, 270–71

happiness in, 140–41

Le Vasseur in, 107–11

Mme de Boufflers in, 35, 76, 251

Mme de Verdelin in, 82, 251

Môtiers attack in, 50

nature in, 143

Paris in, 11

publication of, 241, 246, 288

readings from, 253–54

secret jealousies in, 28–29

virtue in, 29

writing of, 220, 228–32

Considerations on the Government of Poland
(Rousseau), 253

Conti, Louis-François de Bourbon, Prince de, 35–36, 89, 216, 249, 252, 288–89

King of Prussia letter and, 159, 160

Mme de Boufflers and, 75, 76, 79, 200, 287, 289

Temple residence of, 75, 81, 86, 256, 287

Conway, Francis Seymour,
see
Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Earl of

Conway, Henry Seymour, 52, 54–55, 60–63, 96, 127–29, 187, 198, 219, 244, 299, 301

DH-JJR conflict and, 187, 188, 198, 201, 270

JJR's correspondence with, 245

JJR's dinner invitation from, 149, 151

JJR's royal pension and, 128–29, 176–78, 188, 195, 201, 202, 219, 236–37

King of Prussia letter and, 158–59

in Rockingham administration, 62–63, 127–28, 303

Conway, Mrs. Henry Seymour, 149, 178

Correspondance littéraire,
28, 73, 87, 290

cosmopolitanism, 8, 143

Council of Bern, 38

Cowper, John, 227

Cranston, Maurice, 107

Craufurd, John (“Fish”), 162, 163, 164, 296

Critical and Historical Essays
(Macaulay), 52

Critical Review,
21

Critique of Pure Reason
(Kant), 260

Cunning Man, The
(Rousseau), 218–19

Curchod, Suzanne,
see
Necker, Suzanne

Darwin, Erasmus, 223

Davenport, Davies, 226, 253, 300

Davenport, Phoebe, 226, 240, 251, 252, 300

Davenport, Richard, 122–23, 148, 149, 191, 195, 235–41, 253, 299–300

DH's correspondence with, 177, 182, 187, 192, 241, 243, 244, 247

DH's description of, 122, 299

on JJR, 233

JJR's correspondence with, 157, 169–70, 183, 222, 235–36, 238, 239–40, 243–44, 245–46, 249, 251–52

JJR's relationship with, 194, 226, 233, 237, 252

retour chaise affair and, 151, 156, 157, 175, 192–93, 269

Davenport Hall, 227, 238–40

De Beneficiis
(Seneca), 207

Defence of Mr. Rousseau, against the Aspersions of Mr. Hume, Mons. Voltaire, and their Associates
(Fuseli), 212

Deffand, Gaspard du, 291

Deffand, Mme du, 70–71, 184, 287, 289

Craufurd's relationship with, 162, 164, 296

de L'Espinasse's relationship with, 70–71, 287, 289, 291

on Mme de Boufflers, 75, 76, 160

Walpole's relationship with, 56, 160, 164, 289

Defoe, Daniel, 140

deism, 144–45

Delany, Mary, 224, 225, 300, 301, 302

De l'esprit (Of the Mind)
(Helvétius), 290

democracy, 7, 43

Denis, Saint, 70

Derbyshire, 122–24, 132–33, 153, 165
see also
Wootton Hall

Destouches-Canon, Chevalier, 287

Devin du village, Le (The Village Soothsayer)
(Rousseau), 12, 46, 85, 218

Dewes, Anne, 224

Dewes, Mary, 224–25, 239, 255, 300, 301

DH-JJR conflict and, 206

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
(Hume), 146, 257–58, 296

Dialogues of the Dead
(Lucian), 259

Dickens, Charles, 55

Dictionary of Music
(Rousseau), 82

Diderot, Denis, 74, 89, 109, 123, 289, 290, 291

Encyclopédie
and, 9, 29, 287, 289

JJR's breaches with, 29, 30, 31

JJR's friendship with, 9–12, 289

Ramsay's correspondence with, 120

at salons, 71, 73

solitude as viewed by, 29, 123, 143

Dinham, John, 243

Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts
(Rousseau), 10

dogs, 14, 56, 144, 252–53, 271, 289

training of, 138

see also
Sultan

Dover, 4, 91, 93, 118, 241, 242, 244–47

Drury Lane Theatre, 97–102, 218

Duchesne, Nicolas-Bonaventure, 86

Du Peyrou, Pierre-Alexandre, 83, 113, 121, 123, 156, 237–38, 293–94

JJR's friendship with, 44, 50, 252, 294

JJR's papers and, 44, 169, 170, 238, 293

Dutens, Vincent-Louis, 235

economics, 2, 19, 26, 136, 142

Smith and, 257, 298

économie Politique
(Rousseau), 9

Edinburgh, 14–17, 19–23, 27, 143, 297

cultural awakening in, 19—20, 119, 296

DH's house in, 24, 41

DH's retirement in, 256–59

education, 290

JJR and, 2, 33–34, 110, 140, 225, 253

Einstein, Albert, 264

Elibank, Lord, 78

Eliot, T. S., 5, 193

Elliot, Annie, 22, 172

Elliot, Peggy, 22, 172 Elliot, Sir Gilbert, of Minto, 25, 62, 83, 84, 257, 296

Émile
(Rousseau), 2, 33–35, 43, 45, 47, 94, 104, 130, 225, 260, 262

burning of, 34, 36, 38

DH's views on, 41

females in, 110, 140

“Savoyard Vicar” section in, 145, 147–49

empiricism, 134–35, 146, 263

Encyclopédie,
9, 29, 70, 73, 287, 288, 290, 292

England, 66, 144, 253, 255

DH-JJR journey to, 1–4, 90–92, 172, 173, 187, 266

France compared with, 16

France's wars with, 17, 53, 56–57, 100, 288

French cultural exchange with, 58–59

general warrants in, 54, 55

JJR encouraged to go to, 35, 40–43, 82, 293

JJR's arrival in, 4, 92–94, 96

liberties in, 43, 94, 142

marriage in, 75

press importance in, 94–96

Scottish union with, 19–20

English Channel, 1–2, 116

English Tea, in the Room of Four Mirrors, at the Temple, with All the Court of the Prince de Conti
(Ollivier), 75

Enlightenment, 10–11, 39, 272–73

progress and, 8, 11, 133–34

Scottish, 20, 295, 298

see also
French Enlightenment

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,
An (Hume), 17, 134, 142–43, 263

section X of, 146

Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
(Hume), 19, 134

épinay, Louise-Florence d', 33, 141, 253, 289–90

on DH, 72

JJR befriended by, 27, 28, 30–31, 270, 290

equality, 3, 10, 31, 32, 138, 262, 271

Essay on the Study of Literature
(Gibbon), 45

Essays Moral and Political
(Hume), 16

Exposé succinct de la contestation qui s'est élevée entre M. Hume et M. Rousseau avec des pièces justificatives
(Hume), 206–12, 218, 270

feeling:

JJR's emphasis on, 6, 49, 133, 147, 187

reason vs., 28, 133

Ferguson, Rev. Adam, 20, 21

Fielding, Henry, 94

Finney, Samuel, 227

Fitzherbert, William, 122, 123, 157, 243, 244

Fontainebleau, 12

France, 27–36, 37, 39, 41, 46, 56–91, 139, 144, 256

censors in, 9, 34, 48, 74, 290

colonies of, 56, 291

England compared with, 16

England's wars with, 17, 53, 56–57, 100, 288

English cultural exchange with, 58–59

English translations in, 59, 73, 206, 292, 293

marriage in, 75

royal court in, 10, 12, 59, 68, 69, 291–92

see also specific cities and towns

Frankenstein
(Shelley), 262

Franklin, Benjamin, 257

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, 91, 211, 295, 297

enlightened despotism of, 39, 139

JJR's asylum seeking and, 38–40, 49, 51, 126

spoof letter in name of,
see
King of Prussia letter

freedom, JJR's views on, 10, 13, 33, 43, 138, 139, 140, 243

free speech, 94, 142

French Enlightenment, 3, 49, 69, 71, 72, 183, 199, 289

philosophes
and, 8, 69, 73, 287, 291