Jean-Jacques Rousseau, HAND-WRITTEN MANUSCRIPT, 9 pages

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, HAND-WRITTEN MANUSCRIPT, 9 pages:
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, HAND-WRITTEN MANUSCRIPT.

Nine pages of writing on six sheets, 7.5 x 10, no date but circa 1745–1750.

Rousseau transcribed excerpts from various biographical works, stemming from his time as the private secretary to the famous salonnière Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine, called Madame Dupin (1706–1799).

The 9 pages of writing includes:

1. excerpts of a manuscript on the life of Isabella de Valois, Queen of England, by Jean Froissart, as printed in Bernard de Montfaucon's 'Monuments de la monarchie française' (1729)

2. excerpts from Charles Baunier's 'Recueil historique, chronologique et topographique des abbayes de France' (1729) concerning the reception of a bishop by the abbess of Notre Dame aux Nonnains in Troyes;

3. excerpts from 'The Life of Pope Sixtus the Fifth' by the protestant historian Grégorio Leti, recording examples of Sixtus' harsh punishments in cases related to the honor of women.

condition: good. Manuscript comes in custom made traycase. The manuscript obtained from major sale house with their LOA.