Charmettes

+ -- The house which Jean Jacques Rousseau inhabited is on the height called the Charmettes, 395 ft. above and 2 m. from Chambery by a pleasant road shaded with walnut and plane trees.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

I hear they are much pleased with my article on "Les Charmettes & Rousseau"; 12 and they have another, called "William Lentile & Thomas Walt" ,13 which Hunt saw in Pisa, and said it was very good indeed.

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

_Charmettes_ of the _Confessions_ -- and the necessity of publishing these pages, I preferred myself to suffer rather than cause suffering to good old servants, by selling their roofs and their vines to strangers.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

He thought he was now about to reproduce the old days of the Charmettes, true to his inveterate error that one may efface years and accurately replace a past.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

Les Charmettes, the modest farm-house to which they retired, still stands.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

But as he left for Montpellier in the autumn of 1737, and found the obnoxious Vinzenried installed in 1738, the pure and characteristic felicity of Les Charmettes perhaps only lasted about a year or a year and a half.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

The writer is in Sparta, but he tempers his Sparta with a something from Charmettes.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

Walking on the terrace at Les Charmettes, you are at the very birth-place of that particular Etre Supreme to whom Robespierre offered the incense of an official festival.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

Rousseau appears not to have seen her again, but the thought of her remained with him to the end, like a soft vesture fragrant with something of the sweet mysterious perfume of many-scented night in the silent garden at Charmettes.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

At Les Charmettes a pitiful melancholy penetrates you.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905