[164] There appears to be no doubt that Rousseau was wrong in attributing to Vernes the Sentimens des Citoyens.
[165] Corr., iv. 116, 122 (April 1765), 165-196 (August); also Conf., xii. 245.
[166] Note to M. Auguis's edition, Corr., v. 395.
[167] Corr., iv. 204.
[168] Conf., xii. 259. This lapidation has sometimes been doubted, and treated as an invention of Rousseau's morbid suspicion. The official documents prove that his account was substantially true (see Musset-Pathay, ii. 559.)
[169] The fifth of the Rêveries. See also Conf., 262-279, and Corr., iv. 206-224. His stay in the island was from the second week in September down to the last in October, 1765.
[170] Corr., iv. 221. Oct. 20, 1765.
[171] Ib., iv. 136, etc. April 27, 1765.
[172] Streckeisen-Moultou, ii. 209, 212.
[173] Ib., ii. 554.