A retelling of Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1782

Confessions

“'I want to show my fellows a man in all the truth of nature; and this man will be myself.' Rousseau tells his life from his birth in Geneva in 1712 to his expulsion from the Island of Saint-Pierre in 1765: the runaway apprentice, the years with Madame de Warens at Les Charmettes, Venice and Paris, Thérèse and the children he abandoned, the sudden fame of the Discourses, 'Julie' and 'Emile,' the persecutions — hiding nothing, he says, of his faults.”

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Contents12 episodes · ~28 min

  1. 1Book One: Geneva (1712–1728)Free
  2. 2Book Two: Madame de Warens and Turin (1728)🔒
  3. 3Book Three: The Return to Annecy (1728–1731)🔒
  4. 4Book Four: Wanderings (1731–1732)🔒
  5. 5Book Five: Chambéry (1732–1736)🔒
  6. 6Book Six: Les Charmettes (1736–1741)🔒
  7. 7Book Seven: Venice and Paris (1741–1747)🔒
  8. 8Book Eight: The Illumination (1747–1756)🔒
  9. 9Book Nine: The Hermitage (1756–1757)🔒
  10. 10Book Ten: Montmorency (1758–1759)🔒
  11. 11Book Eleven: The Storm (1760–1762)🔒
  12. 12Book Twelve: Môtiers and the Island of Saint-Pierre (1762–1765)🔒