57/59 115) he has grace enough to make the period a month; but the extract from the register of his baptism (Gaberel's _Hist. 224), which has been recently published, shows that this is untrue: "Jean Jacques Rousseau, de Geneve (Calviniste), entre a l'hospice a l'age de 16 ans, le 12 avril, 1728. Abjura les erreurs de la secte le 21; et le 23 du meme mois lui fut administre le saint bapteme, ayant pour parrain le sieur Andre Ferrero et pour marraine Francoise Christine Rora (ou Rovea)." A little further on (p. 119) he speaks of having been shut up "for two months," but this is not true even on his own showing. |