[22] Conf., i. 72.
[23] J. Gaberel's Histoire de l'Église de Genève (Geneva, 1853-62), vol. iii. p. 285.
[24] There is a minute in the register of the company of ministers, to the effect that the Sieur de Pontverre "is attracting many young men from this town, and changing their religion, and that the public ought to be warned." (Gaberel, iii. 224.)
[25] Conf., ii. 76.
[26] Conf., ii. 77.
[27] Conf., ii. 90-97.
[28] Conf., ii. 107
[29] See Émile, iv. 124, 125, where the youth who was born a Calvinist, finding himself a stranger in a strange land, without resource, "changed his religion to get bread."
[30] In the Confessions (ii. 115) he has grace enough to make the period a month; but the extract from the register of his baptism (Gaberel's Hist. de l'Église de Genève, iii. 224), which has been recently published, shows that this is untrue: "Jean Jacques Rousseau, de Genève (Calviniste), entré à l'hospice à l'âge de 16 ans, le 12 avril, 1728. Abjura les erreurs de la secte le 21; et le 23 du même mois lui fut administré le saint baptême, ayant pour parrain le sieur André Ferrero et pour marraine Françoise Christine Rora (ou Rovea)."
A little further on (p. 119) he speaks of having been shut up "for two months," but this is not true even on his own showing.