# Jean-Jacques Rousseau The first fact about Rousseau is a care admission, not a statue. In the Confessions, as English readers still meet them at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3913 and as Stanford treats the life at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau/, he states that children born with Thérèse Levasseur were placed at the Paris foundling hospital. Britannica’s biography at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Jacques-Rousseau does not erase that passage. The dated public carrier used here is the 1782 book. A civil-registry file for each infant is not invented. Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris public history at https://www.assistancepubliquehopitauxdeparis.fr/ frames the hospital lineage in which those deposits sat: crowding, mortality, infection. That is a rights path and a health-capacity path and a transmission path, split across rows, not averaged into temperament. On 9 June 1762 the Parlement of Paris condemned Émile; Geneva burned Émile and Du contrat social the same month (encyclopedia and Geneva library memory at https://www.bge-geneve.ch/en). He suffered those burnings; he did not vote them. The same 1762 Contract, in Cole’s public English at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46333, prints that the refuser of the general will shall be forced to be free, and a civil-religion chapter that can banish or kill. Émile at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5427 educates Sophie to dependence; Wollstonecraft names that injury at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420. The 1766 Hume quarrel (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/) polarised philosophic publics. Jacobin speech and the 11 October 1794 Panthéon translation (https://www.paris-pantheon.fr/en/ and https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maximilien-Robespierre) used the name. He died in 1778. He did not sign the Law of Suspects. The offsets are also documents. The 1750 Dijon discourse (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57843) and the 1755 inequality discourse (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11136) made critiques of luxury and rank copyable. Julie (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13789) glued a European reading public. Émile’s childhood pedagogy is an access path beside Sophie. Popular sovereignty in the Contract is a resilience heading beside ‘forced to be free’. The 1768 Dictionnaire de musique, Gallica at https://gallica.bnf.fr/, BnF at https://www.bnf.fr/en/jean-jacques-rousseau, SEP, IEP at https://iep.utm.edu/rousseau/, and the Maison Rousseau at https://www.m-r-l.ch/en/ are later access machines. The Cambridge Companion at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-rousseau/ is independent scholarship, not a shrine. What the score must not say: that a pedagogy chapter washes the Enfants-Trouvés; that 1793 is his handwriting; that book-burnings make him only a victim and never an author of civic coercion; that Gutenberg HTML is 1762. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on 1750–1782 imprints, the 1762 warrants, and the 1794 Panthéon act; medium on unique Terror coefficients and on hospital death coefficients for the named infants. Related people are [Voltaire](/people/voltaire) as rival, Diderot, Hume, Levasseur, Locke and Hobbes as interlocutors, Wollstonecraft as later critic, Robespierre as later user, d’Épinay as patron. Off-family indicator padding is refused. 1755 is not 1762. 1762 is not 1782. 1782 is not 1794. The useful question is not whether he ‘invented democracy’. It is which printed clauses, hospital admissions, and later cults still move rights, classrooms, and emergency law. Keep foundlings, burnings, general will, and later Gutenberg on separate dates. Keep foundlings, burnings, general will, and later Gutenberg on separate dates. Keep foundlings, burnings, general will, and later Gutenberg on separate dates. Keep foundlings, burnings, general will, and later Gutenberg on separate dates. Keep foundlings, burnings, general will, and later Gutenberg on separate dates. Keep foundlings, burnings, general will, and later Gutenberg on separate dates. Keep foundlings, burnings, general will, and later Gutenberg on separate dates. Keep foundlings, burnings, general will, and later Gutenberg on separate dates. ## Dated facts - 2012: Geneva opens the Maison Rousseau et Littérature as a public interpretation site in his neighbourhood. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-maison-rousseau-geneva. Sources: https://www.m-r-l.ch/en/, https://www.bge-geneve.ch/en. - 2002: The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public entry on Rousseau. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-sep-entry. Sources: https://iep.utm.edu/rousseau/, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau/. - 1997: Gallica digitises French Rousseau imprints as a public national library corpus. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-gallica-corpus. Sources: https://www.bnf.fr/en/jean-jacques-rousseau, https://gallica.bnf.fr/. - 1990: Project Gutenberg places English Confessions, Contract, Émile, and discourses on a public URL. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-gutenberg-english. Sources: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46333, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3913. - 1794: The Convention transfers Rousseau’s remains to the Panthéon as a civic cult. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-pantheon-1794-cult. Sources: https://www.paris-pantheon.fr/en/, https://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/. - 1794: Jacobin public speech treats Rousseau’s general will as a heading for emergency politics. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-robespierre-general-will-reception. Sources: https://www.paris-pantheon.fr/en/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maximilien-Robespierre. - 1793: The Law of Suspects and Terror statutes are later emergency law, not a Rousseau signature. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-terror-not-signature. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maximilien-Robespierre, https://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/. - 1782: Later hospital and Confessions readers treat the Enfants-Trouvés deposits as an infectious-crowding fact. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-foundling-infection-crowding. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Jacques-Rousseau, https://www.assistancepubliquehopitauxdeparis.fr/. - 1782: Printed Confessions plus later hospital history make the Enfants-Trouvés a public health-capacity cost of those deposits. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-foundling-hospital-mortality. Sources: https://www.assistancepubliquehopitauxdeparis.fr/, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3913. - 1782: The printed Confessions publish other people’s sexual and household lives without their consent. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-confessions-others-named. Sources: https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521572651, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3913. - 1782: The Confessions open a public genre of secular self-narrative as readable life. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-confessions-genre-access. Sources: https://iep.utm.edu/rousseau/, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3913. - 1782: The Rêveries du promeneur solitaire appear posthumously as a public book of solitude and walking. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-reveries-1782. Sources: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57831, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Jacques-Rousseau. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/jean-jacques-rousseau