Pierre-Alexandre DuPeyrou

This chapter focuses on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's letter to Pierre-Alexandre DuPeyrou on January 24, 1765. Rousseau begins the letter by assuring DuPeyrou that he has not forgotten to write to Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, who was an influential publisher. He then says that until he finds the model power of attorney that DuPeyrou sent him, which he has mislaid, he is sending “a note of the pieces, both manuscript and printed, which must make up the collection in the order of the quarto edition,” as well as “some articles in the form of explanations which it would be useful to add to the treatise to prevent any trouble.” Rousseau also discusses the arrangement proposed by DuPeyrou for an annuity to be paid to him, and then to Thérèse in the event of his death. In his note on the pieces which will compose the collection, he declares that he “waives publication rights for all of them, however, and cedes this right to the present society in perpetuity.”