National Library of France ( terms of use ). Guillaume, Minutes of the Public Instruction Committee of the National Convention, t. For example, Rousseau's ac- count of the. Journal of debates and decrees, year III, p. 3 In The Confessions stories that may seem absurd on the surface make more sense when understood as satire. Minutes of the National Convention, 1-15 vendémiaire year III, p. Universal Monitor, Vendémiaire Year III, p. On the gift of the manuscript by the widow of Rousseau, see: Cousin, 'From the manuscript of Émile, kept in the library of the House of Representatives', in the Journal des Savants, 1848, p. Morin, Note on the manuscripts of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, kept at the Library of the National Assembly under the reference P 7493. This manuscript was given to the Convention, on 5 Vendémiaire Year III, by Thérèse Levasseur, widow of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in two envelopes of white paper, each sealed with Rousseau's triple seal, in red wax, and bearing this inscription, in the hand of René de Girardin: 'Given by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, under his seal, not to be opened until 1801'. The envelopes in which the two notebooks appeared when they were given to the Convention by Rousseau's widow are still attached to the volumes. Barbeau-Dubarran, ex-president Pelet, Borie, Cordier, L. On the first and last page of each volume are the autograph signatures of the former President and the Secretaries of the Assembly, arranged thus: “Ne varietur. Two notebooks, parchment spine, in a red morocco slipcase.Īutograph manuscript, written, says MG Morin (Note on the manuscripts of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, quoted below), in Worton, Trye and Monquin. I propose to set before my fellow-mortals a man in all the truth of nature and this man shall be myself. The last volume, except the first 4 pages and part of the fifth, is written in Indian ink. He was an honest man, of good understanding, a great Cartesian, spoke tolerably well on the system of the world, and his agreeable and instructive conversations were more serviceable than his prescriptions. Rousseau, Confessions, Book I Jean-Jacques Rousseau Book I I HAVE begun on a work which is without precedent, whose accomplishment will have no imitator.

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