Rêveries Du Promeneur Solitaire Troisième Promenade

was intended to forestall his enemies by revealing his faults before they did and to state his case for posterity. In 1770 he returned to Paris to face his tormentors but was forced to settle for a retiring life. The lyrical, autumnal Rêveries d’un promeneur solitaire (1776; publ. 1782), a meditation on his character, life, ideas and above all feelings, showed him in a calmer mood. He died in 1778, a month after Voltaire who, in death as in life, upstaged him. Rousseau, an outsiderly, thin-skinned