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 : Émile 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.