ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. A good content autograph ...

ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. A good content 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 includes a decidedly feminist statement, stating `Nous croyons donc non seulement par les faits historiques que nous avons cités et les réflexions historiques que nous y ajoutons, avoir donné des preuves de notre opinion de l´égalité qui a longtemps subsisté entre les hommes et les femmes, mais que chacun de ceux qui voudront s´instruire des vérités historiques et en tirer des conséquences ira aisément encore plus loin que nous dans la persuasion que les femmes ont très différemment figuré dans le monde qu´on ne le pense généralement aujourd´hui´ (Translation: "We therefore believe not only because of the historical facts that we have cited and the historical considerations that we add to them, to have given proof of our opinion of the equality which has long existed between men and women, but that each of those who will want to learn about historical truths and draw conclusions from them will easily go even further than us in the persuasion that women have figured very differently in the world than is generally thought today") Large crease across the page, only affecting few words. Overall age wear, mostly to borders, with uneven left and lower edge. About 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