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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Eight: Part 1
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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Book Eight: Part 1
At the end of the preceding book a pause was necessary. With this begins the long chain of my misfortunes, deduced from their origin.
Having lived in two of the most splendid houses in Paris, I had, notwithstanding my candour and modesty, made some acquaintance. Amongst others at Madame Dupin's, that of the young hereditary Prince of Saxe-Gotha, and of the Baron de Thun, his governor: at the house of M. de la Popliniere, that of M. Segui, friend to the Baron de Thun, and known in the literary world by his beautiful edition of Rousseau. The ...
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