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  • She argued that she was more connected to God reading her Rousseau than when she was at mass listening to Padre Ignacio intoning the Nicene Creed.†   (source)
  • ," Adams read in Rousseau.†   (source)
  • Rousseau shaded his eyes.†   (source)
  • Do those peasant squatters south of here know that you've read Newton, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith?"†   (source)
  • Voltaire, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Ibsen!†   (source)
  • The important names are Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau, but there were many, many others.†   (source)
  • I began to read—Hume, Rousseau, Smith, Godwin, Wollstonecraft and Mill.†   (source)
  • You may recall Rousseau, who initiated the slogan 'back to nature.'†   (source)
  • Paul Rousseau was still on Paris time, and so they did not linger long over dinner.†   (source)
  • "Oh, no," Rousseau agreed hastily, "we haven't time for that.†   (source)
  • "Invasion didn't work in Iraq or Afghanistan," replied Rousseau, "and it won't work in Syria.†   (source)
  • And it was the head of this man that Paul Rousseau would deliver to his chief.†   (source)
  • Rousseau agreed to lay down his pen and return to the fight, but only on one condition.†   (source)
  • Like Paul Rousseau, he did not look the role of spymaster.†   (source)
  • The DGSI had sent a similar message to Rousseau.†   (source)
  • "I've always liked Adrian," said Rousseau.†   (source)
  • It's in the room at the end of the hall," said Rousseau.†   (source)
  • Rousseau permitted himself a brief smile at the expense of his rival.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Gabriel with a glance toward Paul Rousseau, "I'm afraid I do."†   (source)
  • Just then, Rousseau's mobile chimed in his coat pocket, followed a few seconds later by Gabriel's.†   (source)
  • "Somewhere between panic and resignation," answered Rousseau.†   (source)
  • You are a people of the region," Rousseau added.†   (source)
  • Even so, Rousseau was flying dangerously close to the sun.†   (source)
  • Obviously, Rousseau and his men had not discovered it, because the lock had been dismantled.†   (source)
  • Rousseau was forever foisting dense volumes of prose and poetry upon his illread deputy.†   (source)
  • "It was Paul Rousseau's idea, not ours."†   (source)
  • Gabriel handed Rousseau a slip of paper, folded in quarters.†   (source)
  • At one sat Adrian Carter, Fareed Barakat, and Paul Rousseau.†   (source)
  • Gabriel stared without expression at Rousseau, as though the name meant nothing to him.†   (source)
  • Paul Rousseau was bleeding heavily from numerous lacerations and cradling an obviously broken arm.†   (source)
  • Rousseau stood, yawned elaborately, stretched his arms wide, and suggested a walk.†   (source)
  • Rousseau caught the door before it could close and led Gabriel into the half-light of the foyer.†   (source)
  • And there were some who spied because Rousseau and his operatives had given them no other choice.†   (source)
  • And Paul Rousseau was their undisputed leader and lodestar.†   (source)
  • Rousseau glanced at the small bald man sitting on the other side of the brasserie.†   (source)
  • Possible, thought Rousseau, but highly unlikely.†   (source)
  • Rousseau slipped the list into the breast pocket of his tweed jacket.†   (source)
  • Therefore, Paul Rousseau was a pleasant surprise.†   (source)
  • Bouchard withdrew, leaving Rousseau alone.†   (source)
  • "How much does he have on her?" asked Rousseau, still staring into the eyes of the woman.†   (source)
  • "I must admit," said Rousseau, "that for a long time I thought you a murderer.†   (source)
  • As far as Rousseau was concerned, he was merely returning the favor.†   (source)
  • Gabriel lifted his eyes from the painting and fixed them squarely on the face of Paul Rousseau.†   (source)
  • Even the normally placid Paul Rousseau was beside himself, but then Rousseau was to be forgiven.†   (source)
  • "Vincent must have loved her very much to paint something so beautiful," Rousseau said at last.†   (source)
  • "It might have slipped my mind," said Rousseau with a sly smile.†   (source)
  • Entering Rousseau's office, he wordlessly placed two photographs on the desk.†   (source)
  • " "Rousseau asked me to make sure you arrived safely."†   (source)
  • Only Paul Rousseau, who had no taste for blood, could not watch.†   (source)
  • After all," said Rousseau, "we still haven't been able to find out where your team is working."†   (source)
  • Rousseau made no attempt to follow them.†   (source)
  • Were the operation ever to become public, Rousseau would surely perish in the resulting scandal.†   (source)
  • In practice, however, Rousseau reported over Jacquard's head to the chief.†   (source)
  • "I wasn't the only one who noticed the man in the sunglasses," Rousseau said after a moment.†   (source)
  • Rousseau peered into the darkening street.†   (source)
  • "He swears it was all Paul Rousseau's idea."†   (source)
  • I am merely a spy, Monsieur Rousseau, not a general or a prime minister.†   (source)
  • Rousseau gathered up the three photographs and returned them to his deputy.†   (source)
  • Bouchard was all things Rousseau was not—young, fit, sharply dressed, and far too good-looking.†   (source)
  • Rousseau also believed that the child should be allowed to remain in its 'naturally' innocent state as long as possible.†   (source)
  • That was about twenty years after Montesquieu and only two years before Voltaire and Rousseau, who both died in 1778.†   (source)
  • Some of the Enlightenment thinkers had drawn attention to the importance of feel-ing—not least Rousseau—but at that time it was a criticism of the bias toward reason.†   (source)
  • He lived in the Age of Enlightenment at the same time as great French thinkers like Voltaire and Rousseau, and he traveled widely in Europe before returning to settle down in Edinburgh toward the end of his life.†   (source)
  • It was part of the joy of reading for him, to have something to say himself, to talk back to, agree or take issue with, Rousseau, Condorcet, Turgot, Mary Wollstonecraft, Adam Smith, or Joseph Priestley.†   (source)
  • It had been praised in poetry by Pope, acclaimed by Rousseau, and was the work, in part, of the most famous English landscape gardener of the day, Lancelot Brown, "Capability" Brown, as he was known, for his habit of extolling to clients the "capabilities" of their property.†   (source)
  • He quoted Rousseau's description of "that hideous sight, the human heart," and recounted that even Dr. Priestley had said that such were the weaknesses and folly of men, "their love of domination, selfishness, and depravity," that none could be elevated above others without risk of danger.†   (source)
  • There were frequent citations in Latin, Greek, and French, extended use of Swift, Franklin, Dr. Price, Machiavelli, Guicciardini's Historia d'Italia, Mon-tesquieu, Plato, Milton, and Hume, in addition to scattered mentions of Aristotle, Thucydides, Hobbes, La Rochefoucauld, and Rousseau, as well as Joseph Priestley, whom Adams had lately come to know in London.†   (source)
  • "Is something wrong?" asked Rousseau.†   (source)
  • Rousseau contemplated his coffee cup.†   (source)
  • There were bumps in the road, but for the most part the negotiations went more smoothly than either Gabriel or Rousseau could have imagined.†   (source)
  • This shortcoming had not endeared him initially to Paul Rousseau, who famously read while brushing his teeth.†   (source)
  • There was also a report that, like Paul Rousseau, he had been inside the National Counterterrorism Center at the time of the attack.†   (source)
  • Gabriel wanted to walk to the Four Seasons for his dinner with Paul Rousseau, but his CIA security detail prevailed upon him to take the SUV instead.†   (source)
  • Rousseau saw none of it; in his thoughts he was watching a young man moving swiftly across a courtyard with a gun in his outstretched hand.†   (source)
  • It was the same place she had been standing, three hours earlier, when Gabriel had left the safe flat for his meeting with Paul Rousseau.†   (source)
  • Rousseau resented him only a little, for Bouchard, despite his obvious shortcomings, was extremely good at his job.†   (source)
  • "Catchy," said Rousseau with a frown.†   (source)
  • Paul Rousseau endured this indignity in a small café on the rue Cler, a fashionable pedestrian shopping street not far from the Eiffel Tower.†   (source)
  • By his expression, Rousseau made it clear he was in no mood for games, so Bouchard quickly supplied the name.†   (source)
  • Carter and Paul Rousseau were momentarily confused; Gabriel and Fareed Barakat, men of the Middle East, were not.†   (source)
  • Rousseau was no Gabriel Allon, but he had been fighting terrorists almost as long, and had the notches in his belt to prove it.†   (source)
  • Rousseau looked quizzically at Gabriel.†   (source)
  • "Late one afternoon," Rousseau resumed, "I was working at my desk when I heard laughter in the courtyard.†   (source)
  • Rousseau did not care for the allusion, for he had no intention of emulating the conduct of the very creatures he was fighting.†   (source)
  • Rousseau returned the phone to his coat pocket and stared at the cobbles where Sabri al-Khalifa had fallen.†   (source)
  • Rousseau viewed the bombing of the Weinberg Center not merely as a failure of intelligence but as a personal affront.†   (source)
  • A passageway gave onto the shadowed internal courtyard, where Rousseau paused for a second time and pointed toward a window on the uppermost floor.†   (source)
  • The president would soon be leaving for Washington for a meeting with his American counterpart, and for that Rousseau was eternally grateful.†   (source)
  • He had anticipated his quarry would proceed directly to Madame Weinberg's apartment on the rue Payee, where Paul Rousseau was at that moment waiting.†   (source)
  • Rousseau had just returned from the Elysee Palace, where he had delivered the same message that Adrian Carter was conveying to the White House.†   (source)
  • "An admirable performance," Paul Rousseau told Gabriel that evening at Alpha Group's headquarters on the rue de Grenelle.†   (source)
  • Even Rousseau advised his streetwise case officers to meet their Aulnay-based sources on less dangerous ground.†   (source)
  • Soon, Rousseau thought with certainty.†   (source)
  • The building at the western end of the street was, like Paul Rousseau's outpost on the rue de Grenelle, a lie in plain sight.†   (source)
  • Paul Rousseau declared that they were compelled to inform his minister of the developments, and perhaps even the British.†   (source)
  • Of this, Paul Rousseau knew nothing.†   (source)
  • Rousseau gave a capitulatory smile.†   (source)
  • THOUGH PAUL ROUSSEAU DID NOT know it then, the seeds for just such an operational union had already been sown.†   (source)
  • Fareed Barakat was looking after Paul Rousseau, and Adrian Carter was looking after what remained of Gabriel's operation.†   (source)
  • The chief of the DGSI had foisted him upon Rousseau, and it was widely assumed he would one day be Alpha Group's chief.†   (source)
  • Rousseau watched him walk away along the darkened pavement, followed discreetly by two of Alpha Group's best surveillance men.†   (source)
  • "If this were ever to become public," said Rousseau, "it would be deeply embarrassing for my service.†   (source)
  • Rousseau set off along the embankment.†   (source)
  • He was a legend, this man, a gifted deceiver and assassin who had been fighting terrorists longer than even Rousseau.†   (source)
  • Rousseau slid it across the table beneath a napkin, with all the discretion of a gunshot in an empty chapel.†   (source)
  • Rousseau looked down at the photograph of the woman they were calling "la veuve noire"—the black widow.†   (source)
  • Then, at nine twenty, Paul Rousseau rang Gabriel to say that Natalie had vanished from their radar screens.†   (source)
  • Rousseau leafed again through the photos of Safia Bourihane and the man who for two days had followed her around Paris undetected by the DGSI.†   (source)
  • Gabriel slipped the flash drive into his coat pocket, making no effort to conceal his action, and asked Rousseau about the mood at AIVD headquarters.†   (source)
  • For the sake of the unit's cover, it published a thin quarterly, which Rousseau insisted on editing himself.†   (source)
  • Rousseau loathed such gatherings—they invariably devolved into political point-scoring contests—so he sent Bouchard in his stead.†   (source)
  • Rousseau joined a unit dedicated to Direct Action's destruction and, with a series of brilliant operations, brought the group to its knees.†   (source)
  • It was somber and shadowed and quiet, save for the Chopin that occasionally drifted through Paul Rousseau's open door.†   (source)
  • "To that end," Rousseau continued, "the Agency is expecting full and complete cooperation from America's friends and partners here in Europe.†   (source)
  • Paul Rousseau was the only member of Alpha Group who had been allowed to read the shopkeeper's appalling file.†   (source)
  • Like all good captains in times of trouble, he remained on the bridge of his vessel, which in Rousseau's case was his office on the fifth floor.†   (source)
  • "How serious is the threat of another attack?" the minister asked when Rousseau had completed his briefing.†   (source)
  • Now, over coffee in the salon of the Weinberg family apartment on the rue Payee, Gabriel and Rousseau set out to repair, at least temporarily, the legacy of mistrust.†   (source)
  • Rousseau looked at Gabriel, but Gabriel, in his thoughts, was walking across a Parisian courtyard, a few paces behind the man for whom the Office had spent seven long years searching.†   (source)
  • It was to be a true partnership, though for obvious reasons Rousseau would retain preeminence over any aspects of the operation that touched French soil.†   (source)
  • Rousseau was obviously tempted to ask Gabriel about the circumstances of his one and only meeting with the American president, but he carried on with his lecture on ISIS instead.†   (source)
  • Rousseau consulted his wristwatch.†   (source)
  • Officially, the Ministry of Health oversaw the clinic's day-to-day operations, but in point of fact it was a classified joint undertaking by the ministry and Paul Rousseau's Alpha Group.†   (source)
  • Be careful, Monsieur Rousseau.†   (source)
  • There, in the Office's secure communications crypt, he checked in with his teams in Paris and London before ringing Paul Rousseau at his office on the rue de Grenelle.†   (source)
  • As it turned out, it took Rousseau's Alpha Group just forty-eight hours to determine that the man from the cafe in Saint-Denis had traveled to Paris from London aboard a Eurostar high-speed train.†   (source)
  • If she was frightened, she gave no sign of it, even on the last night, when Gabriel spirited her into Paul Rousseau's lair on the rue de Grenelle for a final briefing.†   (source)
  • PAUL ROUSSEAU'S PARTICIPATION IN WHAT came next was limited to the acquisition of a safe property near the Belgian border, the cost of which he buried deep within his operating budget.†   (source)
  • It seemed that everyone from Gabriel's tangled past had made the trip: Adrian Carter, Famed Barakat, Paul Rousseau, even Graham Seymour, who had come from London.†   (source)
  • With his tweed jackets, tousled gray hair, and ever-present pipe, Rousseau seemed more suited to the role of absentminded professor than ruthless secret policeman, and not without good reason.†   (source)
  • Rousseau acquired an apartment directly opposite Natalie's where rotating teams of operatives, one Israeli, the other French, maintained a constant presence.†   (source)
  • And so, as the whole of the French security establishment searched for the two perpetrators of the Weinberg Center attack, Rousseau's gaze was already fixed resolutely upon a distant shore.†   (source)
  • For on that very same evening, as Rousseau was walking toward his sad little bachelor's apartment on the rue Saint-Jacques, a car was speeding along Beirut's seafront Corniche.†   (source)
  • "Merde," said Rousseau softly.†   (source)
  • The little bald man with the lavender necktie laid a few bills on his table and departed, leaving Rousseau alone in the brasserie with no company other than his mobile phone.†   (source)
  • Rousseau, said the newspaper, was the chief of something called Alpha Group, an ultra-secret counterterrorism unit known for deception and dirty tricks.†   (source)
  • And so it was that, two months to the day after the Clinique Jacques Chirac opened its doors, Gabriel found himself in Paul Rousseau's office on the rue de Grenelle.†   (source)
  • On the second floor was Alpha Group's overflowing Registry— Rousseau preferred old-fashioned paper dossiers to digital files—and the third and fourth floors were the preserve of the agent runners.†   (source)
  • Rousseau dispatched a cable to MI5 in London and, in the dullest language possible, asked whether the British security service had a place of residence for one Jalal Nasser and whether it had reason to suspect his involvement in any form of Islamic extremism.†   (source)
  • Le Monde revealed an additional "connection" when it reported that a senior DGSI officer named Paul Rousseau, the hero of the secret campaign against Direct Action, had been wounded in the bombing of the National Counterterrorism Center.†   (source)
  • Maurice Durand, the world's most successful art thief, popped in from Paris and somehow managed to avoid bumping into Paul Rousseau, who surely would have remembered him from the brasserie on the rue de Miromesnil.†   (source)
  • Paul Rousseau's observation post was located directly above the café, and the sharp downward angle of the surveillance camera was such that Natalie and Jalal seemed like characters in an avant-garde French film.†   (source)
  • IT WAS WITH A PAIR of routine countersurveillance moves—a reversal of course along a one-way street, a brief stop in a bistro that had a rear service exit off the kitchen—that Gabriel slipped away from the finest watchers of Paul Rousseau's Alpha Group.†   (source)
  • Paul Rousseau received a copy of the dossier during a meeting at AIVD headquarters in The Hague, and upon his return to Paris he presented it to Gabriel in a quiet brasserie on the rue de Miromesnil, in the Eighth Arrondissement.†   (source)
  • It was said of Paul Rousseau, Alpha Group's chief, that he had plotted more bombings than Osama bin Laden, a charge he did not dispute, though he was quick to point out that none of his bombs actually exploded.†   (source)
  • Rousseau looked up sharply.†   (source)
  • A respected scholar of nineteenthcentury French literature, Rousseau had been serving on the faculty of Paris-Sorbonne University when a friend in French intelligence asked him to take a job with the DST, France's internal security service.†   (source)
  • His name is Paul Rousseau.†   (source)
  • Rousseau conceded the point.†   (source)
  • His long-suffering secretary, the implacable Madame Treville, occupied an orderly desk in the anteroom, and at the opposite end of a narrow hall was the office of Rousseau's deputy, Christian Bouchard.†   (source)
  • Rousseau nodded thoughtfully.†   (source)
  • After leaving the safe house, Gabriel had told Carter about his unlikely partnership with Paul Rousseau and Fareed Barakat, and about an ISIS project manager in London named Jalal Nasser, and about an ISIS talent spotter in Brussels named Nabil Awad.†   (source)
  • But why was Rousseau there?†   (source)
  • An air of academic clutter hung over the room, along with the fruited scent of Rousseau's pipe tobacco, a habit he indulged in violation of numerous official edicts regarding smoking in government offices.†   (source)
  • Rousseau looked at Gabriel.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Rousseau.†   (source)
  • Paul Rousseau.†   (source)
  • Rousseau frowned.†   (source)
  • Rousseau knew it well.†   (source)
  • In cafés, train stations, and back alleys across the country, Rousseau's case officers met quietly with their agents of penetration—the preachers, the recruiters, the streetwise hustlers, the well-meaning moderates, the blank-eyed lost souls who had found a home in radical Islam's global Ummah of death.†   (source)
  • Rousseau nodded.†   (source)
  • Sill Larkin, 2331 Rousseau Ave.) who is the nearest thing to a relative I got will have some kind of address for me sometime, and if you ever want to contact me just write me care of her.†   (source)
  • Rousseau perhaps began it.†   (source)
  • And the weary craftiness on the face of the great Jew, Disraeli; the terrible skull-grin of Voltaire; the mad ranting savagery of Ben Jonson's; the dour wild agony of Carlyle's; and the faces of Heine, and Rousseau, and Dante, and Tiglath-Pileser, and Cervantes—these were all faces on which life had fed.†   (source)
  • The artist who doesn't fit—the Rousseau, the Tolstoi, the Samuel Butler, the Amory Blaine—"†   (source)
  • Oh dear, of course, it would be for Mme. Rousseau.†   (source)
  • Social contract—that's the Enlightenment, that's Rousseau.†   (source)
  • "Rousseau's Contrat social," said the vicomte with a tolerant smile.†   (source)
  • And it turns out that Jean Jacques Rousseau is right.†   (source)
  • _' " (*) (*) Rousseau--Nouvelle Heloise.†   (source)
  • He might have been called the Rousseau of Egdon.†   (source)
  • They went off to Rousseau's and spent six francs.†   (source)
  • The proprietor had a fine nickname: he was called Rousseau the Aquatic.†   (source)
  • If Voltaire had written this now, or Rousseau, I should have just read it and thought it remarkable, but should not have been so IMPRESSED by it.†   (source)
  • Temple, after a few moments, sidled across to Stephen and said: —Excuse me, I wanted to ask you, do you believe that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a sincere man?†   (source)
  • "No, thank you, Francoise," my aunt would reply, "that is to say, yes; for you know well that there is very seldom a time when I don't feel faint; one day I shall pass away like Mme. Rousseau, before I know where I am; but that is not why I rang.†   (source)
  • My grandmother, as I learned afterwards, had at first chosen Mussel's poems, a volume of Rousseau, and Indiana; for while she considered light reading as unwholesome as sweets and cakes, she did not reflect that the strong breath of genius must have upon the very soul of a child an influence at once more dangerous and less quickening than those of fresh air and country breezes upon his body.†   (source)
  • Guillaume Rousseau, Emperor of the Empire of Galilee, marched majestically in his robe of purple, spotted with wine, preceded by buffoons wrestling and executing military dances; surrounded by his macebearers, his pickpockets and clerks of the chamber of accounts.†   (source)
  • They had been talking of Bonnivard, as they glided past Chillon, and of Rousseau, as they looked up at Clarens, where he wrote his Heloise.†   (source)
  • The bad side of human thought will always be defined by the paradox of Jean Jacques Rousseau,—you remember,—the mandarin who is killed five hundred leagues off by raising the tip of the finger.†   (source)
  • That is an idea of Rousseau's, still rather new perhaps, but that will end by triumphing, I am certain of it, like mothers nursing their own children and vaccination."†   (source)
  • He considers that Rousseau certainly told lies about himself in his confessions, and even intentionally lied, out of vanity.†   (source)
  • She read Voltaire, and had Rousseau by heart; talked very lightly about divorce, and most energetically of the rights of women.†   (source)
  • As Sir Robert Peel[572] and Mr. Webster[573] vote, so Locke[574] and Rousseau[575] think for thousands; and so there were foundations all around Homer,[576] Menu,[577] Saada,[578] or Milton,[579] from which they drew; friends, lovers, books, traditions, proverbs,—all perished,—which, if seen, would go to reduce the wonder.†   (source)
  • When we have finished this, we are going to begin a translation about whales, and then some of the dullest scandals out of the second part of Les Confessions we have marked for translation; somebody has told Heruvimov, that Rousseau was a kind of Radishchev.†   (source)
  • Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau between Enjolras and Courfeyrac.†   (source)
  • "For instance, he is collecting a library and has made it a rule not to buy a new book till he has read what he had already bought—Sismondi and Rousseau and Montesquieu," he added with a smile.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, however, as in the affair of the assassins of Petit-Jean, the headsman of Paris, and in that of Emery Rousseau, the murderer of Jean Valleret, justice overleaped the church and passed on to the execution of its sentences; but unless by virtue of a decree of Parliament, woe to him who violated a place of asylum with armed force!†   (source)
  • "If madame will do me the honour of making use of it", said the chemist, who had just caught the last words, "I have at her disposal a library composed of the best authors, Voltaire, Rousseau, Delille, Walter Scott, the 'Echo des Feuilletons'; and in addition I receive various periodicals, among them the 'Fanal de Rouen' daily, having the advantage to be its correspondent for the districts of Buchy, Forges, Neufchatel, Yonville, and vicinity."†   (source)
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