Maiden (Voltaire), 38
Malesherbes, Lamoignon de, 34, 74, 141, 249
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 17–18
Marischal, Keith George, tenth Earl Marischal, 42–45, 128, 144, 297
background of, 39
DH-JJR conflict and, 203–4, 217
DH’s friendship with, 40, 42–43
JJR’s correspondence with, 119, 175, 177, 217
JJR’s relationship with, 39–40, 44, 49, 83, 84, 91, 127, 217, 237, 297
JJR’s royal pension and, 91, 127, 128, 175, 177
Marmontel, Jean-François, 188, 199
Marx, Karl, 140
Maty, Matthew, 96
Meinières, Mme de, 184, 190–91, 192
Memoirs (Rockingham), 96–97
Memoirs of George III (Walpole), 95, 128
Millar, Andrew, 25
Monthly Review, 22, 129, 230, 231
DH-JJR conflict and, 211, 212
Montigny, Jean-Charles Trudaine de, 131, 153, 203, 249
Mont-Louis, 31–32, 35–36, 82
Montmorency, 28, 32–33, 43, 76, 107, 232, 292
Morellet, Abbé André, 199, 292
Morley, John, 228
Mossner, Ernest Campbell, 71, 74, 90–91
Môtiers, 38–47, 51, 82, 83, 170, 260
JJR attacked in, 49–50, 144
JJR sent money in, 186
visitors to, 44–47, 271, 294
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 70, 75
music, 240, 251
JJR’s talents in, 8, 9, 10, 12, 28–29, 40, 49, 82, 156, 218–19, 253
My Own Life (Hume), 53, 67, 257, 272
N
Natural History of Religion (Hume), 131, 292
Natural Son, The (Diderot), 29
nature, 135, 138, 139, 143, 254–55, 262
JJR’s views on, 2, 28, 34, 120, 124, 138–39, 143, 145, 156
Necker, Jacques, 44, 204
Necker, Suzanne (née Curchod), 44, 45, 69, 183
Neuchâtel, 38–47, 50, 87, 88, 113, 171, 293, 297
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), 271
Nivernois, Duc de, 159, 164
noblesse de l’épée, 70
North, Lord, 303
Nouvelle Héloïse, La, ou Lettres de Deux Amans (Julie) (Rousseau), 33, 45, 73, 110, 130, 168, 204, 262, 290
in England, 94, 104
success of, 34, 94
Nuneham, George Harcourt, Viscount, 96, 173
O
O’Brian, Lady Susan, 106–7
“Of Refinement in the Arts” (Hume), 143
Of the Spirit (Helvétius), 38
Ollivier, Michel-Barthelémy, 75
On the Origins of Inequality Among Men (Rousseau), 12–13, 139
On the Social Contract (Rousseau), 2, 33, 34, 43, 87, 130, 228
burning of, 37, 38
opera, 12, 28–29, 46, 49, 68, 218–19
Ossory, Lord, 162
P
Paris, 52–53, 105, 116–17, 270
Bastille in, 35, 293
described, 11–12
DH in, 2–3, 4, 25, 53, 57, 59–80, 85–90, 93, 96, 126, 162–63, 172, 184–87, 219, 260, 266
DH-JJR conflict and, 185–87, 198–201, 203–7, 209–11, 214–18
DH’s double life in, 64–80
Foundling Hospital in, 11, 12, 230
JJR in, 2, 8–12, 27, 28–29, 36, 81, 85–90, 102, 126, 172, 187, 228–29, 248–49, 252, 253–54, 255–56, 288, 289, 291, 298
King of Prussia letter in, 132, 157, 160, 163–64, 188
London compared with, 102
Notre Dame in, 254
Panthéon in, 255–56
parlement of, 35, 36, 38, 87, 89, 250, 288, 292
Temple in, 75, 81, 86, 87–88, 184, 218, 252, 256, 287
Paris, Treaty of, 53, 56–57, 60, 288, 296, 301
Paris Journal, 163, 164
Parliament, British, 43, 104, 128
Peggy (Hume’s maid), 19, 24
Penneck, Rev. Richard, 96
Peterborough, 242, 245
Philidor, François-André, 9
Philippe, Duc d’Orléans, 70, 289, 290, 291, 294
philosophes, 8, 28, 88, 130, 161, 207, 254, 266, 287–93
religious views of, 8, 74–75, 144–45
at salons, 29, 69, 71, 73, 289
philosophical history, 21–24
philosophy, 10–11, 15–16
DH’s contribution to, 2, 16, 17, 19, 26, 59, 73–74, 146–47, 263–64
Pitt, Anne, 159
Pitt, William (“the Elder”) (Earl of Chatham), 211, 214, 219, 236, 297, 298, 301
Pitt, William (“the Younger”), 299, 303
Plato, 15
Pod (dog), 14
Poker Club, 20, 27
politics, political theory, 20, 61–64
DH’s contributions to, 19, 23–24, 25–26, 142
DH’s problems with, 22, 54, 61–64, 67
JJR’s contributions to, 4, 7, 9, 33, 34, 87, 138–40, 142, 261
Pompadour, Mme de, 66, 291
Pope, Alexander, 16, 99
Popper, Sir Karl, 263
Portland, Duke of, 226, 302
Portland, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Dowager Duchess of, 226, 255, 302
portrait painting, 1, 119–21, 254, 257, 297–98
Pottle, Frederick, 118, 168
Present State of Polite Learning, The (Goldsmith), 68
press, 129, 172, 244
DH-JJR conflict and, 211–14
importance of, 94–96
King of Prussia letter and, 157–58, 161, 163–67
Private Correspondence (Hume), 68
progress, 8, 11, 133–34
property, 54
JJR’s views on, 9, 13, 32, 138, 140
prostitutes, 11–12, 95, 97, 117, 230
Prussia, 38–40, 83, 126, 139, 297
psychology, 135–36, 147
Public Advertiser, 94, 96, 122, 214
publishing, 22, 44, 48, 82
Pullein, Elizabeth, 114, 115
Pullein, James, 114, 115, 302
R
Ramsay, Allan, 1, 20, 119–23, 194, 254, 257, 297–98
reason, 8, 31, 124, 133, 136–38, 144–47, 183, 189, 272–73
feeling vs., 28, 133
God and, 144, 145, 146
Kant’s views on, 140
relativity theory, 264
religion:
DH’s views on, 22, 74–75, 133, 134, 144–47, 257–60
JJR’s views on, 47, 144–45
opposition to JJR and, 3, 34, 38, 47, 49, 144
philosophes and, 8
see also atheists; Calvinism; Catholicism, Roman
Republic of Letters, 1, 10, 13, 158, 163, 202, 203
DH in, 65–75, 183
JJR’s emigration from, 220–21
retour chaise affair, 151–52, 154, 156–57, 174, 175, 192–93, 269
Reveries of a Solitary Walker (Rousseau), 50, 254–55, 269
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 98
Richardson, Samuel, 59, 66, 94
Richmond, Duke of, 60, 62–63, 80, 299
Robertson, William, 20, 26, 67
Robespierre, Maximilien, 261
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 140
Rochefoucauld, Duc de, 258
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of, 63, 96–97, 127–28, 219, 302–3
Grafton’s service under, 300–301
Grenville replaced by, 54, 62, 299, 301, 302
Rohan, Prince Louis de, 66
Romantic movement, 262
Rouet, William, 106, 129–30
Rougement, Josué de, 130–31, 186, 198, 251
Rousseau, Isaac, 5–6
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1–13, 27–51, 78, 81–134, 136, 138–45, 157–267, 288–302
as Anglophobe, 40, 43
arrest threat and, 35–36, 37, 81, 87, 89, 249, 250, 292
autobiography of, see Confessions
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sp; bladder problem of, 6, 12, 44, 108–9
botanizing of, 50, 115–16, 156, 222, 223, 226, 247, 252, 255, 272, 294, 302
burning of books of, 34, 36, 37, 38
children abandoned by, 11, 12, 49, 230
conspiracy expected by, see Hume-Rousseau conflict; King of Prussia letter
as controversial figure, 34–35, 47–51, 120, 127
death of, 246, 255–56, 291
DH compared with, 133–34
DH’s befriending of, see Hume, David, JJR befriended by
DH’s correspondence with, see Hume, David, JJR’s correspondence with
DH’s falling-out with, see Hume-Rousseau conflict
DH’s frustrations with, 98, 105, 105–6, 129–133, 148, 149, 177–79
DH warned about, 90, 126, 184, 291
as dramatist, 8, 9, 10, 49, 85
education of, 6
emotions of, 3–4, 28, 33, 34, 76, 169
in essay competitions, 10–13
fame of, 8, 10, 13, 87–89, 92–96, 99–101, 121, 266
family background and childhood of, 5–7
in flight from Wootton Hall, 234, 239–47
as Geneva citizen, 7, 12, 37–38, 47
home life of, 45–46, 108
illness of, 30, 43, 91, 96, 108, 130, 131, 187, 267
independence of, 12, 28, 32, 38, 39–40, 82, 91, 109, 140–41, 151, 156
intellectual character of, 2, 147–48
journey to England of, 1–4, 90–92, 172, 173, 187, 266
Le Vasseur’s relationship with, see Le Vasseur, Thérèse
love interests and lusts of, 28, 34, 107, 109
musical talents of, 8, 9, 10, 12, 28–29, 40, 49, 82, 156, 218–19, 253
occupations of, 7, 8, 9
persecution complex, paranoia, and madness of, 3, 4, 6, 7, 30, 89, 157, 172, 189, 238, 246, 247, 249, 250, 251–54, 262, 272
as philosopher, 133
physical appearance of, 1, 12, 28, 43–44, 45, 86, 96, 119, 121, 241, 245, 265
posthumous reputation of, 261–62
as pre-Romantic, 138, 262, 294
radicalism of, 2, 4, 10–13, 33, 33–34, 37, 47, 138
Ramsay’s portrait of, 1, 119–21, 194, 254, 257, 298
reading of, 133, 156
as refugee, 2–4, 35–51, 80–94, 107–8, 211, 213
religious conversions of, 7, 12
religious opposition to, 3, 33, 38, 47, 49, 144
retour chaise affair and, 151–52, 154, 156–57, 174, 192–93
sexuality of, 6, 7, 109, 118, 230
solitude of, 3, 13, 27–28, 29, 40, 46, 123–24, 132–33, 140, 143, 153, 156, 202, 267
turning point of, 9–11
vanity of, 188, 208, 231, 261–62
will of, 108
withdrawal from life of letters by, 220–21
writing habits of, 10
writing style of, 187–89, 192
as yahoo, 209, 213
see also specific works
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, finances of, 13, 81–84, 107, 127–31
DH’s investigation of, 130–31, 186, 198–99, 201, 267
in Paris, 8, 9, 10, 12
royal pensions and, 12, 41, 91, 127, 128–29, 131, 149, 175–78, 184, 186, 188, 194, 195, 201, 202, 219, 236–37, 239–41, 253, 267
self-sufficiency and, 28, 39–40, 82, 141, 151
Rousseau, Susan Bernard, 5–6
Rousseau Juge de Jean-Jacques (Rousseau), 254
Royal Archive at Windsor, 204
Royal Library at Windsor, 193
Russell, Bertrand, 250, 263
S
St. Clair, James, 17–18
St. James’s Chronicle, 87, 117, 164–69
DH-JJR conflict and, 211, 212–13
King of Prussia letter and, 161, 164–65, 166, 171, 187
V.T.h.S.W. letter in, 168
Salon of Four Mirrors, 65, 75
salons, 3, 10, 13, 29, 31, 66, 68–71, 268, 288–93
all-male, 73–74, 183
Schlick, Moritz, 264
science, 10, 143, 260–61, 291
Scipio Africanus, 26
Scotland, 18–22, 24–25, 39, 66, 119, 144, 298
England’s union with, 19–20
French relations with, 39, 57
Jacobite uprising in, 39, 297
see also Edinburgh
Scottish Enlightenment, 20, 295, 298
Select Society, 20, 119, 296, 297
self-sufficiency, 138–41
of JJR, 28, 39–40, 82, 141, 151
Selwyn, George, 72
Seneca, 207
senses, 134–35, 136
Sentiment des citoyens sur les lettres écrites de la montagne (Views of the Citizens over Letters Written from the Mountain) (Voltaire), 48–49, 293
Seven Years’ War, 53, 56–57, 100, 104, 127, 300
end of, 288, 301–2; see also Paris, Treaty of
Shelburne, Earl of, 24–25
Shelley, Mary, 262
Shelley, Percy, 262
Shklar, Judith, 125
silk, 104–5
skepticism, 8
of Hume, 53, 67, 74, 123, 134–36, 146, 147, 148, 260–61
Smith, Adam, 20, 142, 144, 149, 297, 298
DH-JJR conflict and, 177, 185–86, 201, 206
DH’s correspondence with, 63, 66, 185–86, 243, 248, 257
DH’s death and, 259–60
DH’s friendship with, 2, 15, 265–66
DH’s misreading and, 177, 201
as professor, 17, 106, 294, 298
proposed as DH’s literary executor, 257–58
Smollett, Tobias George, 95, 298
Socrates, 15, 86
Spain, 56, 57, 61, 297
Spalding, 234, 241–45
“Spalding in Lincoshire sic le 5 May 1767, A” (Rousseau), 241
Staël, Mme de, 44, 169
Staffordshire, 123, 155, 219, 228, 233
see also Wootton Hall
Stamp Act, 127–28, 299, 301, 302
Stanton, 222–23
Sterne, Laurence, 65, 66
Stewart, John, 66, 83, 103
Strachey, Lytton, 31, 262, 265
Strahan, Sir William, 207–8, 258–59, 269
Strasbourg, 83, 84, 126, 229
Strawberry Hill, 78, 159, 303
Stuart, John, see Bute, John Stuart, Earl of
Suard, Amélie, 183
Suard, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine, 71, 74, 183, 186, 206–7, 292
Sultan (Rousseau’s dog), 154, 225, 240, 242, 245, 266
disappearances of, 121–22, 252
JJR’s attachment to, 2, 3–4, 44, 50, 85, 86, 90–91, 98, 105, 149, 171, 238, 271
running of, 80, 83, 91
Switzerland, 3, 36–51, 87, 88, 108, 144, 187, 251, 253, 296
censorship in, 47, 48, 290
T
Tacitus, 207
Talleyrand, vii
taxes, 57, 114, 127–28, 302
Teleki, Joseph, 109
Tencin, Mme de, 287
theater:
in Geneva, 29–30
JJR’s views on, 29–30, 32, 101, 143
JJR’s writing for, 8, 9, 10, 49, 85
in London, 93, 97–102
Times (London), 97
Tolstoy, Leo, 262
Tonton (dog), 56, 289
Tories, 23, 24
Tour to London, A (Grosley), 103
Townshend, Mr. and Mrs., 105, 111
Tragedy of Zara, The (Hill), 99, 101
translation, 59, 73, 74, 99, 206, 292, 293
Treatise of Human Nature (Hume), 16, 17, 134, 136, 143, 263
Tronchin, François, 294
Tronchin, Jean-Robert, 38, 48, 294
Tronchin, Louis-François, 106, 116, 132, 170, 172, 194, 237, 294–95
Tronchin, Théodore, 30, 87, 106, 116, 170, 172, 290, 294, 295
Turc (Rousseau’s dog), 33
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, Baron de l’Aulne, 71, 74, 248–49, 292–93
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p; DH-J-JR conflict and, 199, 201–2, 214
Turin, 7, 17, 18, 10—21, 230
V
Vercellis, Mme de, 231
Verdelin, Mme de, 81–85, 206, 293
JJR’s correspondence with, 82, 85, 89–90, 171–75, 187
Versailles, 75
Vienna, 17–18
Vienna Circle, 263, 264
Vincennes prison, 9–10
Virgil, 18
Visits to Remarkable Places (Howitt), 223
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 38, 56, 88, 191, 201, 256, 293, 295, 298
Deffand’s correspondence with, 70, 289
DH-JJR conflict and, 210–11, 213
on DH’s work, 21
as dramatist, 30, 99
in Geneva, 29–30
on JJR, 197, 233
JJR’s break with, 48–49
JJR’s correspondence with, 13, 32, 139
King of Prussia letter and, 132, 160, 161
V.T.h.S.W. letter, 168
W
Wales, 105, 113, 119, 122, 132
Walpole, Horace, 23, 54–58, 61, 70, 77, 128, 154, 190, 241, 252, 301, 303
Conway’s relationship with, 54, 219, 299
DH-JJR conflict and, 194, 200, 206, 212, 213, 218
DH’s correspondence with, 209–10
on JJR’s departure for England, 90
King of Prussia letter and, 158–64, 166, 171, 172, 178, 194, 200, 202, 206, 212, 213, 218, 268, 270
Macaulay on, 52, 154
Mme de Boufflers and, 75, 77–78
on newspapers, 95
on Paris, 52, 56, 57–58, 63–64, 66, 71–72, 86
Walpole, Sir Robert, 55, 299, 301, 303
Walton, Benjamin, 227
Warburton, Nigel, 120, 121
Warens, Mme de, 5, 7–8, 31, 136, 252, 295
War of the Austrian Succession, 17–18
Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 257, 298
Whigs, 22, 23, 24, 296, 299–303
Wilkes, John, 87, 117, 119, 159, 296, 301
women, French:
DH’s reception from, 68–73, 83
intellectual attributes of, 68
JJR as viewed by, 88
as salon hosts, 69–71, 75
Wood, Robert, 53, 211
Wootton Hall, 154–57, 169–72, 179, 182, 187, 211, 219–47, 252, 299
DH’s failure to visit, 198
DH’s investigation of, 123
JJR’s flight from, 234, 239–47, 251
JJR’s impressions of, 155–56, 169, 221
JJR’s neighbors at, 224–26, 255, 272, 298, 301, 302
legends about JJR at, 222–23
servants at, 223, 227, 233, 239
transport to, 151, 154
writing of Confessions at, 228–32
Wright, Joseph, 227