In Geneva the Tronchin prosecutor-general wrote the report after which the Genevese Small-Council condemned the Emile and the social Contract. Nevertheless it had specified that severity was to touch the works and not the man.
However the Small-Council issues also Rousseau of catch of body. His/her friends react by “representations” repeated intended for Small-Council. Tronchin is the author of the Written letters of the countryside in which it defends the Small-Council and its “negative right” to decide only validity of the representations. The blow carried to the representatives encourages Rousseau to answer by the Written letters of the mountain.