"The Contrat Social has received its whipping on the back of Emile," was the saying at Geneva.

"At the instigation of M.de Voltaire they have avenged upon me the cause of God," Jean Jacques declared.
Rousseau rashly put his name to his book; Voltaire was more prudent.
One day, having been imprisoned for some verses which were not his, he had taken the resolution to impudently repudiate the paternity of his own works.

"You must never publish anything under your own name," he wrote to Helvetius; "La Pucelle was none of my doing, of course.

Master Joly de Fleury will make a fine thing of his requisition; I shall tell him that he is a calumniator, that La Pucelle is his own doing, which he wants to put down to me out of spite." Geneva refused asylum to the proscribed philosopher; he was warned of hostile intentions on the part of the magnific signiors of Berne.
Neuchatel and the King of Prussia's protection alone were left; thither he went for refuge.

Received with open arms by the governor, my lord Marshal (Keith), he wrote thence to the premier syndic Favre a letter abdicating his rights of burghership and citizenship in the town of Geneva.