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Rousseau

CHAPTER IV
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On the other hand, _Conf._, ix.

249.
[126] M.St.Marc Girardin, in one of his admirable papers on Rousseau, speaks of him as "a bourgeois unclassed by an alliance with a tavern servant" (_Rev.des Deux Mondes_, Nov.

1852, p.

759); but surely Rousseau had unclassed himself long before, in the houses of Madame Vercellis, Count Gouvon, and even Madame de Warens, and by his repudiation, from the time when he ran away from Geneva, of nearly every bourgeois virtue and bourgeois prejudice.
[127] _Conf._, vii.11.Also footnote.
[128] _Reveries_, ix.

309.
[129] _Conf._, viii.


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