# Printed title-pages present him as ‘citizen of Geneva’ as a republican public identity

Date: 1755

## The fact

The inequality discourse and later books print ‘citoyen de Genève’ as the author’s civic name. Geneva later burned him. The heading still named a non-monarchical citizenship.

## Context

A civic byline can include and can exclude. Stored as a cohesion heading of medium confidence, with the 1762 Genevan burning on another 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: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11136; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

A printed civic byline is not a passport office.

A printed civic byline is not a passport office.

## 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

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11136
- https://www.bge-geneve.ch/en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-geneva-citizen-signature