AUDIO BOOK

Autobiography  covering the first fifty-three years of Rousseau's life, up to 1765.  The Twelve Books of Confessions  are divided into two distinct sets, defined by Rousseau himself  : the first part consisting of books I  to VI  with the  Preamble, written in 1765-1767, covers the years 1712-1740 (years of formation, from birth to  Geneva  at installation at  Paris  at 28) while the second part, consisting of books VII  to XII  and written in 1769-1770, covers the years 1741-1765, that is to say his life in Paris in the circles of music and philosophers, with his successes (Discours  -  La Nouvelle Héloïse ) and her setbacks, such as the attacks following the publication of Émile , which forced her to flee to  Swiss. *