ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778)

ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778)

`…they will not be punished there for cases of simple fornication. ´

 

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 The page of manuscript, in Rousseau's hand, is from his unpublished work relating to the history of women and laws which he prepared between 1745-51 for his benefactress Louise Marie Madeleine Dupin.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 fornication and to the privileges granted to Italian merchants, and writes a text of twelve lines, 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 identifies it as taken from `Ordon[nances] des R[ois] de Fr[ance], L[ivre] 4, p[age] 671´, stating `Il parait par des privileges accordés par le Roy Charles 5 aux marchands Italiens que dans la ville de Nimes on punissait…la simple fornication, puisqu´il est porté par ces privileges qu´ils n´y seront point punis pour les cas de simple fornication s´ils ne sont convaincus de rapte ou d´adultère´ (“It is said that according to some privileges granted by King Charles 5 to Italian merchants that, in the city of Nimes they punished simple fornication, but since it is granted by these privileges they will not be punished there for cases of simple fornication if they are not convicted of kidnapping or adultery”) Overall very small age tone with right and bottom edges very slightly trimmed. G

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

Charles V “The Wise” (1338-1380) King of France.