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ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) - ROUSSEAU JE AN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. A very fine and interesting autograph manuscript, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. [1745-48], in French. Rousseau writes a short text, being related to the history of women, and annotates to the upper left corner `Ordon: des Rois de Fr. T.4, p. 499 ´, referring to De Lauriere´s work Traité des Régences et Majorités des Rois de France . Rousseau states `Ordonnance du Roy Charles 5 du mois d´Octobre 1364 qui défend à tous chirurgiens et chirurgiennes d´exercer à Paris sans avoir été examinés par les chirurgiens jurés au châtelet et autres licenciés en cet art, établis à Paris´ (''Order of King Charles V, from October 1364, which prohibits all surgeons from practicing in Paris without having been examined by sworn surgeons at the Chatelet and other licensees in this art established in Paris.''). Small overall minor age wear, mostly to edges, with uneven bottom edge, otherwise G. The present text corresponds to Rousseau´s work about the history of women, written between 1745 and 1751 for his benefactress Mrs Louise Marie Madeleine Dupin, and which would never be published. 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.