ABSTRACT
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was furious, and from that time on took every occasion to offend him. Jean-Jacques was entirely unmolested in Paris, where he settled in the Rue Platiere, called the Rue Jean-Jacques. He had first stopped at the Hotel du Saint-Esprit, then moved to a near-by dwelling, owned by a retired grocer named Venant, who let him one fifth-floor room which he used for cooking, sleeping, and living. The approach was through a tiny entrance-hall, “where cooking utensils were arranged in excellent order.” Two small beds “of coarse cotton cloth, striped blue and white” like his hangings, a spinet, “a bureau, one table, and a few chairs composed all his furniture.” On the walls hung “a map of the forest and park of Montmorency, and a print representing the King of England.” Therese Levasseur perverted pride had reduced him to the extremity of feigning to beg masochism again.
