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The Comtesse d’Houdetot	76
Diderot—Roguin—The Abbe de Condillac	77
D’Alembert—Diderot and D’Alembert undertake the “Dictionnaire Encyclopédique”—Imprisonment of Diderot—Its cause—Rousseau writes to Madame de Pompadour to obtain his release	78

 

BOOK VIII

Becomes acquainted with Grimm	80
Visits Diderot—His emotion	81
Determines to write an essay on the subject proposed by the Academy of Dijon: “Has the progress of the arts and sciences contributed more to the corruption or purification of morals?”	82
Manner of working on his essay—Its completion	83
Sets up his own establishment with Thérèse and her parents—Their tranquil life	84
Affair of Klüpfel, Grimm, and Rousseau with a girl	86
The essay gains the prize at Dijon—Effects	87
The author defends his conduct towards his children	88
Third child left at the Foundling Hospital—The next two disposed of in the same manner	89
Treachery of Madame le Vasseur	90
Becomes cashier to the Receiver-General of Finance—Unfitness for the position	92
Serious illness—The cause of his continued ill-health—His life despaired of—Reflections	93
Becomes a copyist of music and abandons his former mode of life	95
Robbed of his linen by the brother of Thérèse	96
The essay severely criticised by the defenders of literature—King Stanislaus and Rousseau	98
Bitter enmity of M. Bordes of Lyons	99
Becomes the fashion, and is visited by numbers of people—Refuses all presents	100
Domestic annoyances—Paris becomes distasteful—Causes of his outward unsociability	101
Introduces Grimm to his friends—The Abbé Raynal	102
Grimm and Mademoiselle Fel—Her disdain—Grimm feigns illness—Its result	103
The Baron d’Holbach—M. Duclos	104
Madame la Marquise de Créqui—M. Saurin	105
M. Mussard—His strange mania and painful end	106
Composes the Devin du Village	108
Success of the opera—Quarrel between MM. de Cury and Duclos concerning it	109
Journeys to Fontainebleau in a royal carriage to witness its performance—Incident in the café	110