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Rousseau

CHAPTER III
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There are some lines imperfectly commemorative of the trio-- Trois auteurs que Rousseau l'on nomme, Connus de Paris jusqu'a Rome, Sont differens; voici par ou; Rousseau de Paris fut grand homme; Rousseau de Geneve est un fou; Rousseau de Toulouse un atome.
Jean Jacques refers to both his namesakes in his letter to Voltaire, Jan.

30, 1750.

_Corr._, i.

145.
[63] The only object which ever surpassed his expectation was the great Roman structure near Nismes, the Pont du Gard.

_Conf._, vi.


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