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Quotation from Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“At length, notwithstanding all I could say and do, the physician triumphed, and the child died of hunger”
Confessions, Book XI, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903)
Rousseau blames the physician Bordeu's severe regimen for the starvation death of the young heir of the Luxembourg family.
Citation: "At length, notwithstanding all I could say and do, the physician triumphed, and the child died of hunger" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Book XI, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903). (id rousseaus-confessions-q13)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
