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ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) - ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. An interesting autograph manuscript, two pages, 4to, n.p., [Paris], n.d. (c.1745), in French. The two full pages of manuscript, in Rousseau's hand, are from his unpublished work relating to the history of women and laws which he prepared between 1745-51 for his benefactress Louise Marie Madeleine Dupin.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 ` L.5. p.380, L.6.p.427 ´. Bearing beneath a two lines annotation in the hand of Madame Dupin. Rousseau refers to the texts taken from the works of Father Helyot, History of religious and military monastic orders which was published in 1718, stating in part ` Il y a en Allemagne des Abbayes don't les Abbesses sont Princesses de l´Empire, comme celles d´Heppack, d´Himmeltron et de Guttenfel. L´abbesse de Lindaw pretend à la souveraineté de cette ville en vertu d´une charte de Louis le débonnaire. Il est certain que cette ville a été sujette aux Abbesses pendant quelque temps. Les chanoinesses de Lindaw ont été autrefois très puissantes. L´Abbesse devint non seulement Princesse de l´Empire, mais elle avait encore son maire du Palais qui demeurait à Vasserbourg, et il marchait ordinairement en si grand equipage qu´elle fut contrainte d´ordonner qu´il ne viendrait à Lindaw qu´avec 12 chevaux. Lorsque l´Abbesse sortait du monastère pour quelque cérémonie on portait toujours devant elle une épée nue… ´ (” There are Abbeys in Germany whose Abbesses are Princesses of the Empire, such as those of Heppack, Himmeltron and Guttenfel. The Abbess of Lindaw claims the sovereignty of this city by virtue of a charter of Louis the Debonaire. It is certain that this city was subject to the Abbesses for some time. The canonesses of Lindaw were in the past very powerful. The Abbess not only became Princess of the Empire, but she also had her Mayor of the Palace who lived at Vasserburg, and he usually travelled with such a large equipage that she was compelled to order that he should come to Lindaw only with 12 horses. When the Abbess left the monastery for some ceremony, a naked sword was always carried in front of her.… '') With right and bottom edges very slightly trimmed, otherwise G   Louis the Debonaire (778-840) also known as Louis the Pious, or the Fair. King of the Franks and co-Emperor with his father Charlemagne. Louis was the only surviving son of Charlemagne.   At the time Rousseau wrote these pages, between 1745 and 1751, he was working as secretary to his benefactress Louise Marie Madeleine Dupin