174 HOUSSEAU. 



Nevertheless a storm ensued upon the publication of 

 the book. JV(- de Malesherbes, first President of the 

 Cour des Aides, and at the head of the Censorship 

 (Librairie), had given it his official sanction, and it had 

 in consequence been published at Paris and Amsterdam 

 about the same time. But the Courts of Law interfered, 

 and a decree of arrest was issued. Rousseau had notice 

 through the kindness of his excellent friends the Lux- 

 embourgs, and by their aid he escaped to Neufchatel, 

 where Lord Marischal (Keith), the Prussian governor, 

 protected and befriended him- Theresa followed, 

 and appears to have in no degree increased the com- 

 forts of his residence. She soon grew tired of the 

 solitude in which they lived the manners of the 

 inhabitants would not tolerate kept women ; and there 

 is every reason to think, that after feeding his suspicious 

 mind with alarms, and making him believe that his 

 life was in danger from the bigotry of the people, she 

 strengthened her exhortations by pretending that his 

 house was one night during the fair attacked by the 

 mob. He gives a minute account of the " quarry of 

 stones" found in the house next morning, alleging that 

 they were thrown through the windows. But M. 

 Servan (' Reflexions sur les Confessions') states his 

 having been particularly informed, by a respectable 

 person who saw the house the same day, that the holes 

 in the windows were smaller than the stones found on 

 the floor ; and Comte d'Eschery, a passionate admirer 

 of Rousseau, and who doubled the prize offered by the 

 Academic Fra^aise, in 1790, for his ' Eloge,' affirms, 

 in his < Melanges de Literature ' (vol. iii., p. 35 and 

 154), not only that Theresa, who had made herself 



