A garden for a kingdom, by Gwenaële Robert: green paradise

Gwenaële Robert made a name for herself through lovely novels set in the story and hero of Charlotte Corday, the knight of Limoléan or the southern commander Semmes, hero of the naval battle of Cherbourg. This time, welcome to the XX^e century, with a heroine who could well be the author. Under the pretext of resuming her thesis, the narrator goes to Ermenonville, a town north of Paris where Rousseau died in the most bucolic of settings, the garden of her friend the Marquis de Girardin. A bucolic death which would contrast with the Terror to come: Jean-Jacques had sowed the wind, France was going to reap the storm.

Why did she choose this ambiguous character from French literature, a good whiny and talkative writer and memoirist? She can't explain it. Should we find the explanation in an adolescence spent a few kilometers away, in a family governed by original principles of education? Taken from theEmile? That would be…