# The printed Confessions publish other people’s sexual and household lives without their consent

Date: 1782

## The fact

The 1782–1789 Confessions name lovers, patrons, and rivals in intimate detail as a public book. It is literature and it is a non-consensual personal file.

## Context

Autobiography can be knowledge and can be exposure. Split the genre-access row.

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](/people/jean-jacques-rousseau) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official library, encyclopedia, or public-domain edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3913; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

A printed intimate dossier of others is a personal-data harm path, not GDPR, and not a reason to hide the foundling admission.

A printed intimate dossier of others is a personal-data harm path, not GDPR, and not a reason to hide the foundling admission.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: https://factrail.ai/people/jean-jacques-rousseau

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521572651
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3913

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-confessions-others-named