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Marie-Thérèse Levasseur ([tɛ.ʁɛz lə.va.sœʁ]; 21 September 1721 – 12 July 1801; also known as Thérèse Le Vasseur, Lavasseur) was the domestic partner, mistress, wife and widow of Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Sep 27, 2010 · In 1745 Rousseau met Thérèse Levasseur, a barely literate laundry-maid who became his lover and, later, his wife. According to Rousseau’s own account, Thérèse bore him five children, all of whom were deposited at the foundling hospital shortly after birth, an almost certain sentence of death in eighteenth-century France.
This chapter explores both the relationship between Thérèse Levasseur (1721–1801) and her longtime companion, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), and contemporary eighteenth-century perceptions of Levasseur.
- Jennifer M. Jones
- 2020
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Marie-Thérèse Levasseur, née le 21 septembre 1721 à Orléans et morte le 12 juillet 1801 au Plessis-Belleville, est la compagne, puis la femme du philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Thérèse Levasseur. Maid, mistress of Jean Jacques Rousseau (q.v.); they met in 1745 and conceived five children, who were all sent to the orphanage; they married in 1768 (albeit informally - the marriage was neither legally or religiously valid) and stayed together until Rousseau's death in 1778.
Thérèse Levasseur, also known as Thérèse Le Vasseur and Thérèse Lavasseur, was the domestic partner of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. She was a barely-literate seamstress who may have borne him as many as five children, all of whom were given away to Enfants-Trouvés foundling home, the first in 1746 and the others in 1747 ...
Nov 7, 2014 · A biography of Thérèse only minimally engages the arguments of Rousseau, since it focuses on whether there were children and whether they were his; see Charly Guyot, Plaidoyer pour Thérèse Levasseur (Neuchâtel, 1962), 29–47.
