# The Rêveries du promeneur solitaire appear posthumously as a public book of solitude and walking

Date: 1782

## The fact

In 1782 the Rêveries were printed, a completed posthumous book. Solitary walking as a shared later practice is a modest cohesion-and-mental-life path, not a party.

## Context

Posthumous print is editors’ work. He wrote the walks. Complex.

[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 Reveries of the Solitary Walker — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57831; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

A 1782 walking book is not a 1762 treatise.

A 1782 walking book is not a 1762 treatise.

## 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/57831
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Jacques-Rousseau

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-reveries-1782