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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.
Apr 20, 2020 · The ever-thoughtful Madame de Warens secured a plum job for Rousseau with the French Ambassador in Vienna, but Rousseau was bored and quit, lighting out for Paris. There he entered into an affair with a seamstress named Thérèse Levasseur, who bore him at least two and, possibly, five children, all of whom were placed in orphanages.
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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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, 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.
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.
