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id: rousseau-confessions_01-1728
author: rousseau
title: confessions_01-1712_1728
date: 1728
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words: 15493
sentence: 469
flesch: 56
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summary:
  Isaac Rousseau was born at Geneva, in 1712, son of Isaac Rousseau and Susannah Bernard, citizens. His father was a watchmaker. His mother was daughter of a Mons. Bernard, minister, and possessed aconsiderable share of modesty and beauty.


id: rousseau-confessions_03-1731
author: rousseau
title: confessions_03-1728_1731
date: 1731
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words: 16591
sentence: 482
flesch: 58
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summary:
  During his stay at Madam de Vercellis's, he was restless, absent, and thoughtful. His thoughts were occupied with girls and women. He would have liked to have met with Miss Goton, but the time was past in which the play of infancy predominated. M. Gaime was tutor to the Count of Melarede's children. He was incapable of doing the service he needed, but he was useful to him.


id: rousseau-confessions_04-1730
author: rousseau
title: confessions_04-1731_1732
date: 1732
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17001
sentence: 535
flesch: 62
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summary:
  M. le Maitre's box of music, containing all his fortune, was seized at Lyons by Count Dortan, who had received information from the Chapter of our having absconded with it. He lost the fruit of his talents, the labor of his youth, and principal dependence for the support of old age. He was disappointed not to hear news of Madam de Warrens on his arrival.


id: rousseau-confessions_02-1730
author: rousseau
title: confessions_02-1728_1731
date: 1731
extension: .txt
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words: 16930
sentence: 417
flesch: 50
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summary:
  In 1728-1731, a young man fled his family in search of freedom and adventure. He spent a few days in the countryside before returning to the city. He stayed with some country people who treated him better than the people in town.


id: rousseau-confessions_11-1761
author: rousseau
title: confessions_11-1761
date: 1761
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18867
sentence: 598
flesch: 61
cache: cache/rousseau-confessions_11-1761.txt
txt: txt/rousseau-confessions_11-1761.txt
summary:
  Julie was published in 1761. It was a great success in Paris. The book was least successful in Switzerland and most successful in France. It is singular that the book should have succeeded better in France than in the rest of Europe.


id: rousseau-confessions_06-1736
author: rousseau
title: confessions_06-1736
date: 1736
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19874
sentence: 516
flesch: 53
cache: cache/rousseau-confessions_06-1736.txt
txt: txt/rousseau-confessions_06-1736.txt
summary:
  In Book VI (1736) he describes the happiness of his life. He had no occasion to have any property, but it was sufficient that he enjoyed it. Nothing that passed during that charming epocha, nothing that he did, said or thought has escaped his memory.


id: rousseau-confessions_05-1735
author: rousseau
title: confessions_05-1735
date: 1735
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 20697
sentence: 527
flesch: 52
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summary:
  In 1732 I arrived at Chambery and began registering land for the king. I slept at the house of Madam de Warrens, but it was dark and dismal, and my apartment the most gloomy of the whole. I lived in the same house with my best friend, at her desk or in her chamber. She had no inclination for a journey to Turin, but she hired an old house in Chambery.


id: rousseau-confessions_08-1749
author: rousseau
title: confessions_08-1749
date: 1749
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23345
sentence: 787
flesch: 63
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txt: txt/rousseau-confessions_08-1749.txt
summary:
  M. Seguy lived in the two most splendid houses in Paris. He was invited to visit the prince of Saxa-Gotha at Fontenai-sous-Bois. There he met M. Klupffel, his chaplain and later became his governor. M. Grimm was a young man who served him as a reader until he could get his own place. The next day at dinner the conversation turned to music and they became friends.


id: rousseau-confessions_10-1758
author: rousseau
title: confessions_10-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23740
sentence: 817
flesch: 65
cache: cache/rousseau-confessions_10-1758.txt
txt: txt/rousseau-confessions_10-1758.txt
summary:
  After quitting the Hermitage in 1758, he fell into a state of depression. Madam d'Epinay and Grimm tried to force him to leave Montmorency. He left it so suddenly that they had no time to prevent the step.


id: rousseau-confessions_12-1762
author: rousseau
title: confessions_12-1762
date: 1762
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 29867
sentence: 926
flesch: 60
cache: cache/rousseau-confessions_12-1762.txt
txt: txt/rousseau-confessions_12-1762.txt
summary:
  For the last eight years, the author has been enveloped in a dark and mysterious world. He cannot explain the circumstances of his life. He is convinced that he has been the victim of a conspiracy. He knows where the author's researches will end, but loses himself in the crooked and subterraneous path.


id: rousseau-confessions_07-1741
author: rousseau
title: confessions_07-1741
date: 1741
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 32447
sentence: 1162
flesch: 65
cache: cache/rousseau-confessions_07-1741.txt
txt: txt/rousseau-confessions_07-1741.txt
summary:
  After two years of silence and patience, he has written a book about his youth. The first part of it was written entirely from memory and is full of errors. The second part will probably be even more numerous. All the papers he had collected to aid his recollection are no longer in his possession, nor can he ever hope to regain them.


id: rousseau-confessions_09-1756
author: rousseau
title: confessions_09-1756
date: 1756
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 37755
sentence: 1316
flesch: 65
cache: cache/rousseau-confessions_09-1756.txt
txt: txt/rousseau-confessions_09-1756.txt
summary:
  After spending 15 years in Venice, Venice, Paris and Paris, he wanted to retire and live in the country. He had no regular income, but he possessed some talents, and he had acquired a name. He was laborious when he chose to be so, and his idleness was less that of an indolent man.


