"I have neglected nothing," he said, "to gain the love of my compatriots; nobody could have had worse success.

I desire to indulge them even in their hate; the last sacrifice remaining for me to make is that of a name which was dear to me." Some excitement, nevertheless, prevailed at Geneva; Rousseau had partisans there.

The success of _Emile_ had been immense at Paris, and was destined to exerciso a serious influence upon the education of a whole generation.

It is good," wrote Voltaire, "that the brethren should know that yesterday six hundred persons came, for the third time, to protest on behalf of Jean Jacques against the Council of Geneva, which had dared to condemn the Vicaire savoyard." The Genevese magistrates thought it worth while to defend their acts; the _Lettres ecrites de la Campagne,_ published to that end, were the work of the attorney-general Robert Tronchin.

Rousseau replied to them in the _Lettres de la Montagne,_ with a glowing eloquence having a spice of irony.