Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Government of Poland, translated by Willmoore Kendall (Hackett: Indianapolis, 1985).

Excerpt:

“Jean-Jacques,” writes Rousseau in his Rousseau Passes Judgment on Jean-Jacques (the last and most bitter of his writings about himself),

devoted six months…first to studying the constitution of an unhappy nation (i.e. Poland), then to propounding his ideas on the improvements that needed to be made in that constitution, all at the urging, reiterated with great stubbornness, of one of the first patriots of the nation in question, who made a humanitarian duty of the tasks he imposed.

Rousseau, as he is likely to do when recounting an incident in his own life, is here mixing fact and fancy.

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