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Thérèse Levasseur was the domestic partner, mistress, wife and widow of Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. She bore him five children, all given to the foundling home, and inherited his belongings after his death in 1778.
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
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.
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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.
Thérèse Levasseur was the domestic partner of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. She was a seamstress who may have had five children with him, and inherited his belongings after his death.
May 11, 2016 · He later would repay Rousseau very badly for the favor by seducing his mistress, Thérèse Levasseur, but at the time he impressed the great writer with his wit and enthusiasm. It was thanks to Rousseau that in 1765 Boswell set out for Corsica.
Rousseau’s description of his private life with Levasseur voices the sentiments that fueled the emerging eighteenthcentury cult of domesticity and new valorization of companionship in marriage: I enjoyed six or seven years of the most perfect domestic happiness of which human weakness is capable.
