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I read to Du Peyrou what I had written: he advised me to suppress it, and I did so.
The country is sown with the ashes of martyrs. Long before the execution of Brousson, the Peyrou at Montpellier had been the Calvary of the South of France. As early as the twelfth century, the Albigenses, who inhabited the district, excited the wrath of the Popes.
For an instructive and, as it appears to me, a thoroughly trustworthy account of the temper in which the Confessions were written, see the 4th of the Rêveries. Letter to the Duke of Grafton, Feb. 27, 1767. Corr., v. 98: also 118. Corr., v. 37. Corr., v. 88. See the letters to Du Peyrou, of the 2d and 4th of April 1767. Corr., v. 140-147. Davenport to Hume; Burton, 367-371.
Peter, with my books and effects, and depositing my papers in the hands of M. du Peyrou. I used so much diligence that the next morning I left the island and arrived at Bienne before noon. An accident, which I cannot pass over in silence, had here well nigh put an end to my journey.
My memoir is in the hands of Du Peyrou. Should it ever be published my reasons will be found in it, and the heart of Jean Jacques, with which my contemporaries would not be acquainted, will I hope be known.
And what the old man and Andrew had said was true.... They wandered to the Peyrou, the beautiful Louis XIV terraced head of the great aqueduct, and sat in the garden she alone, Andrew some yards apart and once a few crumbs attracted a bird, it would hop nearer and nearer, and if she was very still it would light on her finger and eat out of the palm of her hand, and if she were very gentle, she could stroke the wild thing's head and plumage.
The Peyrou is now pleasantly laid out in terraced walks and shady groves, with gay parterres of flowers the upper platform being surrounded with a handsome stone balustrade.
There is, however, and very happily, an interval of six or seven years, relative to which I have exact references, in a collection of letters copied from the originals, in the hands of M. du Peyrou.
Not satisfied with printing it only, I sent copies to several persons, and amongst others one copy to the Prince Louis of Wirtemberg, who had made me polite advances and with whom I was in correspondence. The prince, Du Peyrou, and others, seemed to have their doubts about the author of the libel, and blamed me for having named Vernes upon so slight a foundation.
I read to Du Peyrou what I had written: he advised me to suppress it, and I did so.
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