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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 The two pages of manuscript, in Rousseau's hand, are from his unpublished work relating to the history of women and laws which he prepared between 1745-51 for his benefactress Louise Marie Madeleine Dupin.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. Rousseau refers to inheritance, identifies it as taken from ` Novell. Const. art. 187 ´, stating in part ` Nous avons dit cy dessus qu´une femme mariée sans dot et répudiée sans cause devait avoir la 4eme partie du bien de son mari jusqu´à la concurrence de cent livres d´or. Nous établissons ici la même chose, savoir que la femme hérite de la 4eme partie des biens de son mari mort, qu´il laisse des enfants ou non. … De même qu´un mari qui n´a rien donné propter nuptias , ne doit rien avoir du bien de la femme s´il ne lui a été légué par testament… ´ ( ''We said above that a married woman without a dowry and repudiated without cause should have the 4th part of her husband's property up to one hundred pounds of gold. We establish here the same thing, this means that the wife inherits the 4th part of the property of her dead husband, whether he leaves children or not.… Just as a husband who has given nothing propter nuptias, must not have anything of the property of the woman if it has not been bequeathed to him by will … '') Very small age tone, mostly to the bottom edge, with right and bottom edges very slightly trimmed, otherwise G      At the time Rousseau wrote these pages, between 1745 and 1751, he was working as secretary to his benefactress Louise Marie Madeleine Dupin.