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This is Turgot's opinion on the controversy (Letter to Caillard, Oeuv., ii. 827): "Tous avez donc vu Jean-Jacques; la musique est un excellent passe-port auprès de lui. Quant
I think no scene of my life was ever more affecting." Burton, ii. 315. The great doubters of the eighteenth century could without fear have accepted the test of the ancient saying, that men without tears are worth little. Bernardin de St. Pierre, Oeuv., xii. 79. For other letters from the shrewd coxcomb on the same matter, see pp. 23-28.
See Rousseau's note to her, Corr., i. 178. Conf., viii. 190. Conf., viii. 183. Conf., viii. 202; and Musset-Pathay, ii. 439. When in Strasburg, in 1765, he could not bring himself to be present at its representation. Oeuv. et Corr. Inéd., p. 434. Madame de Staël insisted that her father said this, and Necker insisted that it was his daughter's. Corr., i. 176. Feb. 13, 1753. Conf., viii. 208-210.
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