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BY 1762, ROUSSEAU had become one of the most controversial figures in Europe. In the Confessions, he looked back at “the cry of execration that went up against me across Europe, a cry of unparalleled fury. … I was an infidel, an atheist, a lunatic, a madman, a wild beast, a wolf.”