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Excerpt from Le Dernier Ami de J.-J. Rousseau: Le Marquis Ren� de Girardin, 1735-1808, d'Apr�s des Documents In�dits
Thermidor sauva le marquis et sa famille; mais la nation r�clama les restes de Rous seau pour les porter au Panth�on. Girardin ne pouvait plus habiter Ermenonville, d'o� la grande ombre �tait d�sormais exil�e. Il alla demeurer chez un de ses amis et y mourut en 1808. Il ne pensait plus sans doute, comme vingt ans auparavant, que la justice et la raison gouverneraient un jour les choses humaines; mais sa foi en Rousseau n'en avait pas �t� �branl�e. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
