ROUSSEAU Jean-Jacques (1712-1778).
P.S. "JJRousseau by Duplicate," January 1, 1771; 1 oblong page in-8, address on back.
Receipt of an annuity from his publisher.
"I acknowledge having received from Madame la Ve
Duchesne the sum of three hundred livres for the same amount of a life annuity that she and her husband made to me on April 29, 1765 before Me Nau and his fellow notaries, which annuity is due on the first of this month of January, of which receipt and of all things to this day...
On the back, address of "Monsieur Guy rue St Jacques chez Me Ve Duchesne".
[Marie-Antoinette Cailleau, widow of Nicolas-Bonaventure DUCHESNE, continued the activity of her husband bookseller-publisher, with his clerk and associate Pierre Guy; she edited Rousseau's Dictionnaire de musique].
