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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Eleven: Part 1

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

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Book Eleven: Part 1

Although the Julie, which for a long time had been in the press, had not yet, at the end of the year 1760, appeared, the work already began to make a great noise. Madame de Luxembourg had spoken of it at Court, Madame d'Houdetot at Paris. The latter had obtained from me permission for St. Lambert to read the manuscript to the King of Poland, who had been delighted with it. Duclos, to whom I had also given the perusal of the work, had spoken of it at the Academy. All Paris was impatient to see the novel; the booksellers' shops in the Rue Saint ...

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