FOOTNOTES:
[151] Delandine's Couronnes Académiques, ou Recueil de prix proposés par les Sociétés Savantes. (Paris, 2 vols., 1787.)
[152] Musset-Pathay has collected the details connected with the award of the prize, ii. 365-367.
[153] Second Letter to M. de Malesherbes, p. 358. Also Conf., viii 135.
[154] Diderot's account (Vie de Sénèque, sect. 66, Oeuv., iii. 98; also ii. 285) is not inconsistent with Rousseau's own, so that we may dismiss as apocryphal Marmontel's version of the story (Mém. VIII.), to the effect that Rousseau was about to answer the question with a commonplace affirmative, until Diderot persuaded him that a paradox would attract more attention. It has been said also that M. de Francueil, and various others, first urged the writer to take a negative line of argument. To suppose this possible is to prove one's incapacity for understanding what manner of man Rousseau was.
[155] Conf., ix. 232, 233.
[156] Rousseau Juge de Jean Jacques, Dialogues, i. 252.
[157] Dialogues, i. 275, 276.
[158] Conf., viii. 138.
[159] "It made a kind of revolution in Paris," says Grimm. Corr. Lit., i. 108.