[289] To Madame d'Epinay, 1757. Corr., i. 362, 353. See also Conf., ix. 307.
[290] One of the most unflinching in this kind is an Essai sur la vie et le caractère de J.J. Rousseau, by G.H. Morin (Paris: 1851): the laborious production of a bitter advocate, who accepts the Confessions, Dialogues, Letters, etc., with the reverence due to verbal inspiration, and writes of everybody who offended his hero, quite in the vein of Marat towards aristocrats.
[291] Corr., i. 327-335. D'Epinay, ii. 165-182
[292] D'Epinay, ii. 173.
[293] Conf., ix. 325.
[294] Ib., ix. 334.
[295] Mém., ii. 297. She also places the date many mouths later than Rousseau, and detaches the reconciliation from the quarrel in the winter of 1756-1757.
[296] The same story is referred to in Madame de Vandeul's Mém. de Diderot, p. 61.
[297] Conf., ix. 245, 246.
[298] Grimm to Madame d'Epinay, ii. 259, 269, 313, 326. Conf., x. 17.