The loneliness of a gifted child
The end of innocence
"I desired a happiness of which I had no idea"
Rousseau finds a mother
A year of wandering
In Maman's house
The idyll of Les Charmettes
Broadening horizons : Lyon and Paris
The masks of Venice
A life partner and a guilty secret
A writer's apprenticeship
The beginnings of fame
Rousseau's originality
Lionized in Geneva, alienated in Paris
An affair of the heart
The break with the Enlightenment
Peace at last, and the triumph of Julie
Rousseau the controversialist : Emile and the social contract
Exile in the mountains
Another expulsion
In a strange land
The past relived
Into the self-made labyrinth
The final years in Paris.