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Project Gutenberg places English Confessions, Contract, Émile, and discourses on a public URL

Late-twentieth-century Gutenberg transcriptions put the principal Rousseau treatises on stable public URLs. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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Late-twentieth-century Gutenberg transcriptions put the principal Rousseau treatises on stable public URLs. He did not mark up SGML.

Context

Digital copies spread both the foundling admission and the sovereignty heading.

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.

Why it matters

A Gutenberg text is not a 1762 first edition.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · verified

    Named author, patient of police, or heading of later reception. Printers, parlements, and later states share the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.The Social Contract — Cole translation, public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorJean-Jacques Rousseau
  2. contributed toFactProject Gutenberg places English Confessions, Contract, Émile, and discourses on a public URL
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Project Gutenberg places English Confessions, Contract, Émile, and discourses on a public URL. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-gutenberg-english

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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