The Prince de Conti provided him with a lodging in the Hotel Saint-Simon, within the precincts of the Temple--a place of sanctuary for those under the ban of authority.

'Every one was eager to see the illustrious proscript, who complained of being made a daily show, "like Sancho Panza in his island of Barataria." During his short stay in the capital there was circulated an ironical letter purporting to come from the Great Frederick, but really written by Horace Walpole.

This cruel, clumsy, and ill-timed joke angered Rousseau, who ascribed it to, Voltaire.

A few sentences may be quoted: "My Dear Jean-Jacques,--You have renounced Geneva, your native place.

You have caused your expulsion from Switzerland, a country so extolled in your writings; France has issued a warrant against you: so do you come to me.