ABSTRACT
Jean-Jacques Rousseau very soon left London, but objected to the first boarding place offered him in a nurseryman's home at Fulham. Before Jean-Jacques left Saint-Pierre, he went through a period of perplexed indecision in the effort to choose a place of refuge among several which were open to him. The Prince of Wurttemberg invited him to Vienna, being of a mind, strange as it may seem, to entrust him with his daughter’s education; while Paoli wished him to come to Corsica, there to frame a constitution for his fellow-countrymen. In Basle a surprise performance of his Devin was arranged in his honor; his Narcisse was acted in the salons; he was so “sought after,” to use his own term, that he was continually invited to receptions which tired him, and to bountiful dinners which upset his digestion. The Duke de Choiseul, alarmed by his popularity, notified Monsieur de Conti and the British embassy that he had better hasten his departure.
