Extracts From The Journal
| 1757 | March | I wrote some critical observations upon Plautus | |
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| 8th | I wrote a long dissertation on some lines of Virgil. | ||
| June | I saw Mademoiselle Curchod — Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori | ||
| August | I went to Crassy, and stayed two days. | ||
| September | 15th | I went to Geneva | |
| October | 15th | I came back to Lausanne, having passed through Crassy | |
| November | 1st | I went to visit M. de Watteville at Loin, and saw Mademoiselle Curchod in my way through Rolle. | |
| 17th | I went to Crassy, and stayed there six days. | ||
| 1758 | January | In the three first months of this year I read Ovid's Metamorphoses, finished the conic sections with M. de Traytorrens, and went as far as the infinite series; I likewise read Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology, and wrote my critical observations upon it. | |
| 23rd | I saw Alzire acted by the society at Monrepos. Voltaire acted Alvarez; D'Hermanches, Zamore; de St. Cierge, Gusman; M. de Gentil, Monteze; and Madame Denys, Alzire. | ||