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Lausanne, where he afterwards married a second wife 

 advanced in years, and had no children by her. His 

 eldest son, seven or eight years older than Jean 

 Jacques, had never been the favourite, though bred to 

 his father's business ; he took a dissipated course, left 

 the place, and went into Germany. Little pains were 

 taken to stop or to trace him ; he never wrote to any 

 one after his flight, and what became of him is not 

 known. In all probability, he died before his bro- 

 ther's name became well known, else he probably 

 would have discovered himself. 



Beside the love of modern romances and of ancient 

 history, accident gave him a fondness for music, which, 

 with the other passion, accompanied him through life. 

 His aunt, who took care of him, sang a great number 

 of simple airs, chiefly popular ones, with a sweet small 

 voice, which, aided by his attachment to her, made a 

 deep impression upon him, and formed his taste in 

 song as well as imbued him with a sensibility to its 

 charms. After his father's departure for Lausanne, 

 he was left to the care of his uncle Bertrand, who 

 sent him for two years to Boissy, near Geneva, where 

 he remained under the tuition of M. Lambercier, a 

 pastor, and appears to have learnt a little Latin ; but 

 when the Abbe Gouvon, in whose service he afterwards 

 was, at Turin, treated him rather as a secretary than 

 a footman, and read Latin with him, he was found 

 to be very ill grounded, and wholly unable to construe 

 Virgil. He acknowledges, indeed, that he never was 

 tolerably acquainted with the language, though he 

 repeatedly attempted to gain it. His statement to this 

 effect, twelve years after he had translated the first 



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