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ROUSSEAU Jean-Jacques (1712–1778).

Autograph manuscript; 3 half-pages in-4 (extensive browning, but this does not affect the legibility of the text).

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Autograph manuscript; 3 half-pages in-4 (extensive browning, but this does not affect the legibility of the text).

Notes on women, in preparation for the work on women that Rousseau undertook between 1746 and 1750 for his patron, Mme Louise DUPIN (1706–1749) – This does not correspond to the database.

1799) and which never saw the light of day, based on the volume of Joseph BARRE’s General History of Germany (1748). – A constitution of Emperor Henry VI, in 1196, ‘extends to women the right of succession to the Imperial Crown, which he established within his family through this constitution’. – The Sicilian revolt encouraged by Empress Constance against her husband Henry VI (1196).– Duke Henry of Brabant had obtained from Philip of Swabia ‘a constitution by which this Prince granted him that his daughters might succeed to his fiefs if he had no male heirs’.