Rousseau's Dog by David Edmonds

Author:David Edmonds [Edmonds, David; Eidinow, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-203761-9
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2007-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

The last comment was a scarcely veiled reference to Walpole. Meanwhile, the spoof letter and Rousseau’s reply were picked up in other papers. And Rousseau’s hurt response caught Grimm’s satiric eye in Paris as juicy material for mockery in his Europe-wide cultural newsletter. “If the monarch took these things as keenly as the author, and if Frederic was of the state of mind of Jean-Jacques, this letter could become the subject of a bloody war.”

Unfortunately for Rousseau, his anguished reply in the St. James’s Chronicle served only to egg on his critics. A series of other malevolent newspaper squibs were aimed in his direction. On April 17–19, passages of a parody entitled in English “A Letter from M. Voltaire to M. Jean-Jacques Rousseau” and in French Lettre de M. de Voltaire au docteur J. J. Pansophe were printed in the London Chronicle and the Lloyd’s Evening Register and noted in the Gentleman’s Magazine.

The news writers will keep an exact register of all your actions and jests, and will talk of John James, as they do of the king’s Elephants, or the queen’s Zebra; the English love to amuse themselves with oddities of every kind, but this pleasure never amounts to esteem.

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