[CHAPTER I.]
Preliminary.
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| The Revolution | [1] |
| Rousseau its most direct speculative precursor | [2] |
| His distinction among revolutionists | [4] |
| His personality | [5] |
[CHAPTER II.]
Youth.
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| Birth and descent | [8] |
| Predispositions | [10] |
| First lessons | [11] |
| At M. Lambercier's | [15] |
| Early disclosure of sensitive temperament | [19] |
| Return to Geneva | [20] |
| Two apprenticeships | [26] |
| Flight from Geneva | [30] |
| Savoyard proselytisers | [31] |
| Rousseau sent to Anncey, and thence to Turin | [34] |
| Conversion to Catholicism | [35] |
| Takes service with Madame de Vercellis | [39] |
| Then with the Count de Gouvon | [42] |
| Returns to vagabondage | [43] |
| And to Madame de Warens | [45] |
[CHAPTER III.]
Savoy.
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| Influence of women upon Rousseau | [46] |
| Account of Madame de Warens | [48] |
| Rousseau takes up his abode with her | [54] |
| His delight in life with her | [54] |
| The seminarists | [57] |
| To Lyons | [58] |
| Wanderings to Freiburg, Neuchâtel, and elsewhere | [60] |
| Through the east of France | [62] |
| Influence of these wanderings upon him | [67] |
| Chambéri | [69] |
| Household of Madame de Warens | [70] |
| Les Charmettes | [73] |
| Account of his feeling for nature | [79] |
| His intellectual incapacity at this time | [83] |
| Temperament | [84] |
| Literary interests, and method | [85] |
| Joyful days with his benefactress | [90] |
| To Montpellier: end of an episode | [92] |
| Dates | [94] |