- Rousseau's on a roll. He publishes Julie in 1759.
- He makes a bunch of new friends to replace those old, unreliable ones.
- Score—a post opens up on the prestigious Journal of Learning. Rousseau is offered the position.
- Unfortunately, Rousseau is ready to give up literature altogether. Yep, you heard that right.
- He wants to get far, far away from Paris.
- What he really wants to do is write a confessional book. Could it be… The Confessions?
- He settles at Montmorency to write the very book we are reading now. His brand-new patron is M. de Luxembourg.
- He tries to steer clear of the spiteful Mme de Luxembourg, who's both extremely pretty and extremely spiteful. Good call, buddy.
- This proves to be rather difficult. Mme de Luxembourg is a Rousseau superfan.
- Actually, Rousseau does something extremely foolish. He writes a letter to one M. de Silhouette, the former controller general of Finance, to express his support.