Authors: David Edmonds
O'Brian, Lady Susan, 106â7
“Of Refinement in the Arts” (Hume), 143
Of the Spirit
(Helvétius), 38
Ollivier, Michel-Barthelémy, 75
On the Origins of Inequality Among Men
(Rousseau), 12â13, 139
On the Social Contract
(Rousseau), 2, 33, 34, 43, 87, 130, 228
burning of, 37, 38
opera, 12, 28â29, 46, 49, 68, 218â19
Ossory, Lord, 162
Paris, 52â53, 105, 116â17, 270
Bastille in, 35, 293
described, 11â12
DH in, 2â3, 4, 25, 53, 57, 59â80, 85â90, 93, 96, 126, 162â63, 172, 184â87, 219, 260, 266
DH-JJR conflict and, 185â87, 198â201, 203â7, 209â11, 214â18
DH's double life in, 64â80
Foundling Hospital in, 11, 12, 230
JJR in, 2, 8â12, 27, 28â29, 36, 81, 85â90, 102, 126, 172, 187, 228â29, 248â49, 252, 253â54, 255â56, 288, 289, 291, 298
King of Prussia letter in, 132, 157, 160, 163â64, 188
London compared with, 102
Notre Dame in, 254
Panthéon in, 255â56
parlement of, 35, 36, 38, 87, 89, 250, 288, 292
Temple in, 75, 81, 86, 87â88, 184, 218, 252, 256, 287
Paris, Treaty of, 53, 56â57, 60, 288, 296, 301
Paris Journal,
163, 164
Parliament, British, 43, 104, 128
Peggy (Hume's maid), 19, 24
Penneck, Rev. Richard, 96
Peterborough, 242, 245
Philidor, François-André, 9
Philippe, Duc d'Orléans, 70, 289, 290, 291, 294
philosophes,
8, 28, 88, 130, 161, 207, 254, 266, 287â93
religious views of, 8, 74â75, 144â45
at salons, 29, 69, 71, 73, 289
philosophical history, 21â24
philosophy, 10â11, 15â16
DH's contribution to, 2, 16, 17, 19, 26, 59, 73â74, 146â47, 263â64
Pitt, Anne, 159
Pitt, William (“the Elder”) (Earl of Chatham), 211, 214, 219, 236, 297, 298, 301
Pitt, William (“the Younger”), 299, 303
Plato, 15
Pod (dog), 14
Poker Club, 20, 27
Political Discourses
(Hume), 19, 73
politics, political theory, 20, 61â64
DH's contributions to, 19, 23â24, 25â26, 142
DH's problems with, 22, 54, 61â64, 67
JJR's contributions to, 4, 7, 9, 33, 34, 87, 138â40, 142, 261
Pompadour, Mme de, 66, 291
Pope, Alexander, 16, 99
Popper, Sir Karl, 263
Portland, Duke of, 226, 302
Portland, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Dowager Duchess of, 226, 255, 302
portrait painting, 1, 119â21, 254, 257, 297â98
Pottle, Frederick, 118, 168
Present State of Polite Learning, The
(Goldsmith), 68
press, 129, 172, 244
DH-JJR conflict and, 211â14
importance of, 94â96
King of Prussia letter and, 157â58, 161, 163â67
Private Correspondence
(Hume), 68
progress, 8, 11, 133â34
property, 54
JJR's views on, 9, 13, 32, 138, 140
prostitutes, 11â12, 95, 97, 117, 230
Prussia, 38â40, 83, 126, 139, 297
psychology, 135â36, 147
Public Advertiser,
94, 96, 122, 214
publishing, 22, 44, 48, 82
Pullein, Elizabeth, 114, 115
Pullein, James, 114, 115, 302
Ramsay, Allan, 1, 20, 119â23, 194, 254, 257, 297â98
reason, 8, 31, 124, 133, 136â38, 144â47, 183, 189, 272â73
feeling vs., 28, 133
God and, 144, 145, 146
Kant's views on, 140
relativity theory, 264
religion:
DH's views on, 22, 74â75, 133, 134, 144â47, 257â60
JJR's views on, 47, 144â45
opposition to JJR and, 3, 34, 38, 47, 49, 144
philosophes
and, 8
see also
atheists; Calvinism; Catholicism, Roman
Republic of Letters, 1, 10, 13, 158, 163, 202, 203
DH in, 65â75, 183
JJR's emigration from, 220â21
retour chaise affair, 151â52, 154, 156â57, 174, 175, 192â93, 269
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
(Rousseau), 50, 254â55, 269
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 98
Richardson, Samuel, 59, 66, 94
Richmond, Duke of, 60, 62â63, 80, 299
Robertson, William, 20, 26, 67
Robespierre, Maximilien, 261
Robinson Crusoe
(Defoe), 140
Rochefoucauld, Duc de, 258
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of, 63, 96â97, 127â28, 219, 302â3
Grafton's service under, 300â301
Grenville replaced by, 54, 62, 299, 301, 302
Rohan, Prince Louis de, 66
Romantic movement, 262
Rouet, William, 106, 129â30
Rougement, Josué de, 130â31, 186, 198, 251
Rousseau, Isaac, 5â6
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1â13, 27â51, 78, 81â134, 136, 138â45, 157â267, 288â302
as Anglophobe, 40, 43
arrest threat and, 35â36, 37, 81, 87, 89, 249, 250, 292
autobiography of,
see
Confessions
bladder problem of, 6, 12, 44, 108â9
botanizing of, 50, 115â16, 156, 222, 223, 226, 247, 252, 255, 272, 294, 302
burning of books of, 34, 36, 37, 38
children abandoned by, 11, 12, 49, 230
conspiracy expected by,
see
Hume-Rousseau conflict; King of Prussia letter
as controversial figure, 34â35, 47â51, 120, 127
death of, 246, 255â56, 291
DH compared with, 133â34
DH's befriending of,
see
Hume, David, JJR befriended by
DH's correspondence with,
see
Hume, David, JJR's correspondence with
DH's falling-out with,
see
Hume-Rousseau conflict
DH's frustrations with, 98, 105, 105â6, 129â133, 148, 149, 177â79
DH warned about, 90, 126, 184, 291
as dramatist, 8, 9, 10, 49, 85
education of, 6
emotions of, 3â4, 28, 33, 34, 76, 169
in essay competitions, 10â13
fame of, 8, 10, 13, 87â89, 92â96, 99â101, 121, 266
family background and childhood of, 5â7
in flight from Wootton Hall, 234, 239â47
as Geneva citizen, 7, 12, 37â38, 47
home life of, 45â46, 108
illness of, 30, 43, 91, 96, 108, 130, 131, 187, 267
independence of, 12, 28, 32, 38, 39â40, 82, 91, 109, 140â41, 151, 156
intellectual character of, 2, 147â48
journey to England of, 1â4, 90â92, 172, 173, 187, 266
Le Vasseur's relationship with,
see
Le Vasseur, Thérèse
love interests and lusts of, 28, 34, 107, 109
musical talents of, 8, 9, 10, 12, 28â29, 40, 49, 82, 156, 218â19, 253
occupations of, 7, 8, 9
persecution complex, paranoia, and madness of, 3, 4, 6, 7, 30, 89, 157, 172, 189, 238, 246, 247, 249, 250, 251â54, 262, 272
as philosopher, 133
physical appearance of, 1, 12, 28, 43â44, 45, 86, 96, 119, 121, 241, 245, 265
posthumous reputation of, 261â62
as pre-Romantic, 138, 262, 294
radicalism of, 2, 4, 10â13, 33, 33â34, 37, 47, 138
Ramsay's portrait of, 1, 119â21, 194, 254, 257, 298
reading of, 133, 156
as refugee, 2â4, 35â51, 80â94, 107â8, 211, 213
religious conversions of, 7, 12
religious opposition to, 3, 33, 38, 47, 49, 144
retour chaise affair and, 151â52, 154, 156â57, 174, 192â93
sexuality of, 6, 7, 109, 118, 230
solitude of, 3, 13, 27â28, 29, 40, 46, 123â24, 132â33, 140, 143, 153, 156, 202, 267
turning point of, 9â11
vanity of, 188, 208, 231, 261â62
will of, 108
withdrawal from life of letters by, 220â21
writing habits of, 10
writing style of, 187â89, 192
as yahoo, 209, 213
see also specific works
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, finances of, 13, 81â84, 107, 127â31
DH's investigation of, 130â31, 186, 198â99, 201, 267
in Paris, 8, 9, 10, 12
royal pensions and, 12, 41, 91, 127, 128â29, 131, 149, 175â78, 184, 186, 188, 194, 195, 201, 202, 219, 236â37, 239â41, 253, 267
self-sufficiency and, 28, 39â40, 82, 141, 151
Rousseau, Susan Bernard, 5â6
Rousseau Juge de Jean-Jacques
(Rousseau), 254
Royal Archive at Windsor, 204
Royal Library at Windsor, 193
Russell, Bertrand, 250, 263
St. Clair, James, 17â18
St. James's Chronicle,
87, 117, 164â69
DH-JJR conflict and, 211, 212â13
King of Prussia letter and, 161, 164â65, 166, 171, 187
V.T.h.S.W. letter in, 168
Salon of Four Mirrors, 65, 75
salons, 3, 10, 13, 29, 31, 66, 68â71, 268, 288â93
all-male, 73â74, 183
Schlick, Moritz, 264
science, 10, 143, 260â61, 291
Scipio Africanus, 26
Scotland, 18â22, 24â25, 39, 66, 119, 144, 298
England's union with, 19â20
French relations with, 39, 57
Jacobite uprising in, 39, 297
see also
Edinburgh
Scottish Enlightenment, 20, 295, 298
Select Society, 20, 119, 296, 297
self-sufficiency, 138â41
of JJR, 28, 39â40, 82, 141, 151
Selwyn, George, 72
Seneca, 207
senses, 134â35, 136
Sentiment des citoyens sur les lettres écrites de la montagne
(Views of the Citizens over Letters Written from the Mountain) (Voltaire), 48â49, 293
Seven Years' War, 53, 56â57, 100, 104, 127, 300
end of, 288, 301â2;
see also
Paris, Treaty of
Shelburne, Earl of, 24â25
Shelley, Mary, 262
Shelley, Percy, 262
Shklar, Judith, 125
silk, 104â5
skepticism, 8
of Hume, 53, 67, 74, 123, 134â36, 146, 147, 148, 260â61
Smith, Adam, 20, 142, 144, 149, 297, 298
DH-JJR conflict and, 177, 185â86, 201, 206
DH's correspondence with, 63, 66, 185â86, 243, 248, 257
DH's death and, 259â60
DH's friendship with, 2, 15, 265â66
DH's misreading and, 177, 201
as professor, 17, 106, 294, 298
proposed as DH's literary executor, 257â58
Smollett, Tobias George, 95, 298
Socrates, 15, 86
Spain, 56, 57, 61, 297
Spalding, 234, 241â45
“Spalding in Lincoshire
sic
le 5 May 1767, A” (Rousseau), 241
Staël, Mme de, 44, 169
Staffordshire, 123, 155, 219, 228, 233
see also
Wootton Hall
Stamp Act, 127â28, 299, 301, 302
Stanton, 222â23
Sterne, Laurence, 65, 66
Stewart, John, 66, 83, 103
Strachey, Lytton, 31, 262, 265
Strahan, Sir William, 207â8, 258â59, 269
Strasbourg, 83, 84, 126, 229
Strawberry Hill, 78, 159, 303
Stuart, John,
see
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of
Suard, Amélie, 183
Suard, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine, 71, 74, 183, 186, 206â7, 292
Sultan (Rousseau's dog), 154, 225, 240, 242, 245, 266
disappearances of, 121â22, 252
JJR's attachment to, 2, 3â4, 44, 50, 85, 86, 90â91, 98, 105, 149, 171, 238, 271
running of, 80, 83, 91
Switzerland, 3, 36â51, 87, 88, 108, 144, 187, 251, 253, 296
censorship in, 47, 48, 290
Tacitus, 207
Talleyrand, vii
taxes, 57, 114, 127â28, 302
Teleki, Joseph, 109
Tencin, Mme de, 287
theater:
in Geneva, 29â30
JJR's views on, 29â30, 32, 101, 143
JJR's writing for, 8, 9, 10, 49, 85
in London, 93, 97â102
Times
(London), 97
Tolstoy, Leo, 262
Tonton (dog), 56, 289
Tories, 23, 24
Tour to London,
A (Grosley), 103
Townshend, Mr. and Mrs., 105, 111
Tragedy of Zara, The
(Hill), 99, 101
translation, 59, 73, 74, 99, 206, 292, 293
Treatise of Human Nature
(Hume), 16, 17, 134, 136, 143, 263
Tronchin, François, 294
Tronchin, Jean-Robert, 38, 48, 294
Tronchin, Louis-François, 106, 116, 132, 170, 172, 194, 237, 294â95
Tronchin, Théodore, 30, 87, 106, 116, 170, 172, 290, 294, 295
Turc (Rousseau's dog), 33
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, Baron de l'Aulne, 71, 74, 248â49, 292â93
DH-J-JR conflict and, 199, 201â2, 214
Turin, 7, 17, 18, 10â21, 230
Vercellis, Mme de, 231
Verdelin, Mme de, 81â85, 206, 293
JJR's correspondence with, 82, 85, 89â90, 171â75, 187
Versailles, 75
Vienna, 17â18
Vienna Circle, 263, 264
Vincennes prison, 9â10
Virgil, 18
Visits to Remarkable Places
(Howitt), 223
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 38, 56, 88, 191, 201, 256, 293, 295, 298
Deffand's correspondence with, 70, 289
DH-JJR conflict and, 210â11, 213
on DH's work, 21
as dramatist, 30, 99
in Geneva, 29â30
on JJR, 197, 233
JJR's break with, 48â49
JJR's correspondence with, 13, 32, 139
King of Prussia letter and, 132, 160, 161
V.T.h.S.W. letter, 168
Wales, 105, 113, 119, 122, 132
Walpole, Horace, 23, 54â58, 61, 70, 77, 128, 154, 190, 241, 252, 301, 303
Conway's relationship with, 54, 219, 299
DH-JJR conflict and, 194, 200, 206, 212, 213, 218
DH's correspondence with, 209â10
on JJR's departure for England, 90
King of Prussia letter and, 158â64, 166, 171, 172, 178, 194, 200, 202, 206, 212, 213, 218, 268, 270
Macaulay on, 52, 154