# The Law of Suspects and Terror statutes are later emergency law, not a Rousseau signature

Date: 1793

## The fact

The 17 September 1793 Law of Suspects is a completed Convention instrument. Rousseau’s name was already a cult heading.

## Context

Do not invent his handwriting on a 1793 decree. Do store the [institutional-corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption) path of a philosophic name used to bless suspect-law. Medium and 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: Archives nationales (France) (https://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/; Archives nationales).

## Significance

A 1793 suspect-law is not Du contrat social, and a cult of Rousseau is not a rebate to 1793 either.

A 1793 suspect-law is not Du contrat social, and a cult of Rousseau is not a rebate to 1793 either.

## 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

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maximilien-Robespierre
- https://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-terror-not-signature