ABSTRACT
Jean-Jacques Rousseau could hardly have returned from Montpellier with restored health for the excellent reason that no practitioner could have cured him of a nonexistent tumor. Rudolph Wintzenried was there and had no scruples about letting him see that he was not wanted. So Jean-Jacques ate humble pie, and though he made himself out to be more ill than he actually was, he offered his services to “Mamma” and to Wintzenried, asking of the latter nothing but to be allowed to call him brother. No incidents or actions of his can be cited to illustrate it, much less to describe it. Pierre-Maurice Masson discerned clearly that Father Lamey touched a weak spot in Rousseau’s Catholicism, already tending to run into rationalism and later transformed by slow degrees into theism. Monsieur de Mably was a fine man, of hard exterior, as he had to be in his position in the mounted police force, but high-minded and of wide experience.
