Rousseau's Dog (43 page)

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

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

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

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

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

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

DH-J-JR conflict and, 199, 201–2, 214

Turin, 7, 17, 18, 10—21, 230

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

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