chosen to leave his family, while Rousseau had felt orphaned or abandoned from his first moments on earth. Referring, in The Confessions, to the fact that his mother had died nine days after he was born, Rousseau famously proclaimed that “I cost my mother her life. So my birth was the first of my misfortunes.”34 Raised by his aunt and his father and lacking the formal education enjoyed by Diderot, the boy learned to read and write by poring over long adventure
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