Author's Note 35
As if there were citizens who were not part of the city and had not, as such, a share in sovereign power! But the French, who have thought fit to usurp the honorable name of citizen which was formerly the right of the members of the Gallic cities, have degraded the idea till it has no longer any sort of meaning. A man who recently wrote a number of silly criticisms on the Nouvelle Heloise added to his signature the title "Citizen of Paimboeuf," and he thought it a capital joke.