[72] Ib. v. 356
[73] Ib.
[74] Conf., v. 315, 316.
[75] Ib. iv. 276. Nouv. Hél., II. xiv. 381, etc.
[76] He refers to the ill-health of his youth, Conf., vii. 32, and describes an ominous head seizure while at Chambéri, Ib. vi. 396.
[77] Rousseau's description of Les Charmettes is at the end of the fifth book. The present proprietor keeps the house arranged as it used to be, and has gathered one or two memorials of its famous tenant, including his poor clavecin and his watch. In an outside wall, Hérault de Sechelles, when Commissioner from the Convention in the department of Mont Blanc, inserted a little white stone with two most lapidary stanzas inscribed upon it, about génie, solitude, fierté, gloire, vérité, envie, and the like.
[78] Rêveries, x. 336 (1778).
[79] Conf., vi. 393.
[80] Conf., vi. 412.
[81] Mém, de Mdme. d'Epinay, i. 394. (M. Boiteau's edition: Charpentier. 1865.)