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ROUSSEAU Jean-Jacques (1712 - 1778)
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ROUSSEAU Jean-Jacques (1712 - 1778)
AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT, Testament du Cal de Richelieu...| 6 pages in-4 with margin, on 3 leaves.
Notes on women in the second part of the Testament politique du Cardinal de Richelieu.
In view of the work on women that Rousseau undertook between 1746 and 1750 for his protector Mrs Louise DUPIN (1706 - 1799) and which never saw the day.
"The happiness of a State is the establishment of the Kingdom of God. After having blamed hypocrisy, he says: many spirits whose weakness is equal to their malice sometimes use this kind of ruses, all the more common to women as their sex is more inclined to devotion, and as the little strength with which it is accompanied makes them more capable of such disguises which suppose less solidity than finesse". And Rousseau comments: "MOLIÈRE was in morals as good a politician for the least as the Cal de Richelieu. He unmasked and corrected certain vices, and he found the original of his Tartuffe among men. According to this passage he should have taken it from the women".
Then he returns to Cardinal de Richelieu: "After having spoken of what is appropriate according to the different cases| from this comes, he says, that women, lazy and not very secretive by nature, are so little suited to government. That if one considers that they are also very prone to their passions, and consequently little likely of reason and justice| this only principle excludes them from all public administrations"... Etc.
AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT, Testament du Cal de Richelieu...| 6 pages in-4 with margin, on 3 leaves.
Notes on women in the second part of the Testament politique du Cardinal de Richelieu.
In view of the work on women that Rousseau undertook between 1746 and 1750 for his protector Mrs Louise DUPIN (1706 - 1799) and which never saw the day.
"The happiness of a State is the establishment of the Kingdom of God. After having blamed hypocrisy, he says: many spirits whose weakness is equal to their malice sometimes use this kind of ruses, all the more common to women as their sex is more inclined to devotion, and as the little strength with which it is accompanied makes them more capable of such disguises which suppose less solidity than finesse". And Rousseau comments: "MOLIÈRE was in morals as good a politician for the least as the Cal de Richelieu. He unmasked and corrected certain vices, and he found the original of his Tartuffe among men. According to this passage he should have taken it from the women".
Then he returns to Cardinal de Richelieu: "After having spoken of what is appropriate according to the different cases| from this comes, he says, that women, lazy and not very secretive by nature, are so little suited to government. That if one considers that they are also very prone to their passions, and consequently little likely of reason and justice| this only principle excludes them from all public administrations"... Etc.