ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. An interesting autograph manuscrip

ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. An interesting autograph manuscrip

`...it is ordered that adulterers, either men or women, be lashed in the city...´

 

 

ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. An interesting autograph manuscript, one page, 4to, n.p., [Paris], n.d. (c.1745), in French. The page of manuscript, in Rousseau's hand, is from his unpublished work relating to the history of women and laws which he prepared between 1745-51 for his benefactress Louise Marie Madeleine Dupin. Rousseau writes his text in the right column of the page, the left reserved for additional notes. Rousseau refers to the adulterers at the city of Prissey, near Dijon, and identifies his text from 'Secousse, L.3, p[age] 597'. Rousseau writes a short text, being one of the orders-decrees given by Kings of France which he resumed in his work Ordonnances des Rois de France, (“Ordinances of the Kings of France”), and states `Dans une ordonnance du Roy Jean de 1362 portant confirmation des privileges des habitans (sic) de la ville de Prissey… il est ordonné que les adulteres, soit h[omme] soit f[emme], soient fustigés dans la ville ou payent une amende de 60 sols et un denier´ (“In an ordinance of Roy Jean of 1362 confirming the privileges of the inhabitants of the city of Prissey… it is ordered that adulterers, either men or women, be lashed in the city or pay a fine of 60 sols and a denarius”) Overall small age tone with right and bottom edges very slightly trimmed. G

 

At the time Rousseau wrote these pages, between 1745 and 1751, he was working as secretary to his benefactress Louise Marie Madeleine Dupin.

John II “The Good” (1319-1364) King of France.