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Du contrat social ou principes du droit politique

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
author
Marc-Michel Rey
publisher

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A treatise on the social compact, or, The principles of political law translation has other edition
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An inquiry into the nature of the social contract, or, Principles of political right. Translated from the French by John James Rousseau translation has paratext has other edition
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Del Contratto sociale o principi del diritto politico di J.J. Rousseau, cittadino di Ginevra translation has paratext
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Del Contratto sociale o principi del diritto politico di J.J. Rousseau, cittadino di Ginevra translation
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Contratto sociale translation
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Del contratto sociale translation
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Del contratto sociale o Principj del diritto politico, di J. J. Rousseau cittadino di Ginevra. Tradotto dal francese da G. Mennini romano translation
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Sketch on the life and character of Machiavel. Section IV paratext

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The Social Contract was banned by the French government before 1789, after which multiple reissues were published, often coupled with 'Considerations on the Government of Poland'.

"Royal censorship collapsed in 1789, and the French monarchy followed in 1792. I have been able to document forty-four new editions of the work published between 1789 and 1800 (frequently coupled, like the book in question, with the Considerations on the Government of Poland). This is a remarkable efflorescence, almost as many editions in eleven years as in the thirty preceding. (Conservatively this represents fifty thousand copies.) The revolutionary cult of Rousseau also resulted in a flurry of editorial, bibliographic, and literary treatments of a text that came to be seen, in the eyes of both contemporaries and subsequent generations, as the foundational “script” of French republicanism. About three hundred books or pamphlets about Rousseau and his works appeared during the revolutionary decade (1789–99) alone, and a full bibliographic survey of books about Rousseau since then would run into the tens of thousands. Of the forty-four editions known, even from the most modest of provincial towns, only the Sainton edition from Troyes of which I write has left almost no bibliographic trace. Why has this book gone missing? How is it possible that as many as one to two thousand copies of an important book from a critical historical moment have seemingly evaporated into thin air?"

Carla Hesse, 'A Fugitive Book' in Representations, vol.104, no.1 (Fall 2008)