EMIL OR EDUCATION
(2 manuscripts)
FAVRE MANUSCRIPT
Description
January-April 1759, 264 f. in 11 notebooks from 230 x 175mm to 260 x 200mm.
Presentation of content
1 f. in-4° contains a note from Guillaume Moultou, son of Paul-Claude Moultou, stating that he gave the manuscript to his cousin Guillaume Favre (1770-18151). This one added the date: "May 1825".
Custody history
Given by Léopold Favre in 1915
Additional sources
Paris, Library of the National Assembly, (autograph draft of the final draft).
Geneva, BGE, Ms. fr. 205 (ms. autograph sent to Duchesne in 1761).
Geneva, BGE, Ms. fr. 224 (ms. autograph of the Profession of faith of the Savoyard vicar given to Paul-Claude Moultou in 1762).
Neuchâtel, BPUN, Ms. R. 16, f. 69 (draft fragment); Ms. R. 18, f. 31-32 (minutes of 35 notes to be inserted); Ms. R. 19, f. 66-69 ("Maxims" from Emile); Ms. R. 48 (unused draft fragments); Ms. R. 94 (fragments of the draft of the lLettres morales, some of which passed into the Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar; Ms. R. 278, f. 23 (fragment of the draft not used).
Geneva, BGE, Cc 12 (copy of the first printing with autograph corrections and annotations for a new edition in 1764-1765).
Geneva, BGE, Ms. suppl. 413 (partial non-autograph copy of the Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar, second half of the 18th century).
Bibliography
L. Favre, "The Favre manuscript of Emile, AJJR , VIII, 1912.
PD Jimack, The genesis and the writing of the Emile of J.-J. Rousseau: study on the history of the work until its publication , Geneva, Institute and Museum Voltaire, 1960, p. 15-75.
H. de Saussure, Study on the fate of the manuscripts of J.-J. Rousseau , Neuchâtel, H. Messeiller, 1974, p. 45-48.
Origin and rights
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Society. Creative commons Attribution (NonCommercial-NoDerivs) CC BY-NC-ND license.
MANUSCRIPT FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Description
Flight. 1: 62-165 sheets. Sheet 151 is triple.
Flight. 2: 86-266 sheets. At f. 96-97 and 247-252, the text is unfoliated but paginated.
Flight. 3: 206 leaves. Rousseau, while leafing through, forgot the number 3; we read: f. 2 F. 4, etc ; the F. 14 is tripled.
Presentation of content
Volume 1 includes Book I and Book II.
Volume 2 includes Book III and Book IV. After f 201, where the Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar ends, there are two pages of errata, then four blank pages.
Volume 3 includes Book V. On the back of the last page, we read this address, written in pencil and three-quarters erased: “Madame de Gousy, rue Neuve-Saint-Paul, in Paris.”
Origin and rights
Library and Archives of the National Assembly. Public domain ( terms of use ).