[54] Ib. iii. 209, 210.
[55] Conf., iii. 217-222.
[56] Conf., iv. 227.
[57] Ib. iii. 224.
[58] One Venture de Villeneuve, who visited him years afterwards (1755) in Paris, when Rousseau found that the idol of old days was a crapulent debauchee. Ib. viii. 221.
[59] Mdlles. de Graffenried and Galley. Conf., iv. 231.
[60] Ib. iv. 254-256.
[61] Conf., iv. 253.
[62] While in the ambassador's house at Soleure, he was lodged in a room which had once belonged to his namesake, Jean Baptiste Rousseau (b. 1670—d. 1741), whom the older critics astonishingly insist on counting the first of French lyric poets. There was a third Rousseau, Pierre [b. 1725—d. 1785], who wrote plays and did other work now well forgotten. There are some lines imperfectly commemorative of the trio—
Trois auteurs que Rousseau l'on nomme,
Connus de Paris jusqu'à Rome,
Sont différens; voici par où;
Rousseau de Paris fut grand homme;
Rousseau de Genève est un fou;
Rousseau de Toulouse un atome.