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Portrait of Marie-Thérèse Le Vasseur by E. Charryère, after a sepia by Naudet. 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 .
- French
- 21 September 1721, Orléans, France
- Jean-Henri Bally (1779–1801, her death)
- 12 July 1801 (aged 79), Le Plessis-Belleville, France
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.
ABSTRACT. 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. Modern biographical and scholarly studies of Rousseau often dismiss Levasseur as an “illiterate laundress” and rarely ...
- Jennifer M. Jones
- 2020
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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, 1748, 1751, and 1752.
Oct 28, 2020 · Rousseau’s partner, Marie-Thérèse Levasseur, was from a formerly prominent family that had fallen on hard times, and when she gave birth Rousseau (and Levasseur’s own mother) urged her to send their son to an orphanage.
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.
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.
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