# Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse is printed as a bestselling novel of sentiment and household ethics

Date: 1761

## The fact

In 1761 Julie appeared and sold widely. Sentiment can glue readers across rank. It is not a constitution.

## Context

A bestseller can also police virtue. Stored as a cohesion-and-access path of high confidence on publication, medium on welfare size.

[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: Julie, or the New Heloise — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13789; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

A 1761 epistolary novel is not the 1762 contract.

A 1761 epistolary novel is not the 1762 contract.

## 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.bnf.fr/en/jean-jacques-rousseau
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13789

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-julie-1761