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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.
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
Biography. 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.
Yet these questions also implicitly con- cern Levasseur, suggesting that a promiscuous Levasseur made a cuckold of Rousseau. Questions around Levasseur’s sexual agency underscore concerns about her legitimacy in Rousseau’s life and have swirled around her from the 1740s down to our own times.
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.
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Thérèse Levasseur, with whom he lived from about 1745 until his death, and whom he was eventually to marry, was a somewhat less attractive and far less educated woman, who despite her originally compelling unspoiled freshness never came to command his affections in the same way.
