[Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU]. 2 L.A.S. and 2 prints, 1790-1793. Élisabeth-Françoise-Sophie de La Live de Bellegarde, comtesse d'HOUDETOT (1730-1813, woman of letters, friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Saint-Lambert). L.A.S. "L. d'H.", Sannois this October 15 [circa 1800], to Adelaïde de Pastoret (1page in-8, address). She deplores "the loss I have just made of the melleur et ancien amy et jay a porter a la fois votre peine et la mienne. Give me your news when you can give it [...] I would have gone to see you if I had people here to keep me". She sends him "the compliments of my Voisin who knows himself well in refinement" (this is the poet Saint-Lambert). Marguerite-Marie Roy de La Tour, Madame DELESSERT (1747-1816, friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau). L.A.S. "Mère Delessert", Paris January 2, 1807, to Mme Philippard in Passy (1p. small in-4, address). She thanks her for her good wishes and "very much wishes to witness the prosperity of your family and the satisfaction that will result for you, who seem to me to be a good and tender mother"... LOI qui décrète une Statue pour Jean-Jacques Rousseau, & une Pension de 1 200 livres pour sa Veuve, December 29, 1790 (2pp. in-4, bandeau gravé, Imprimerie Royale). "L'Assemblée Nationale, pénétrée de ce que la nation françoise doit à la mémoire de J.J. Rousseau", decrees the erection of a "statue bearing this inscription: LA NATION FRANÇOISE LIBRE, A J.J. ROUSSEAU. On the pedestal will be engraved the motto: Vitam impendere vero"... - DÉCRET de la Convention Nationale [...] Relatif à l'Erection d'une Statue de Jean-Jacques Rousseau en bronze, 15 brumaire II (November 5, 1793; 2pp. in-4, Impr. Nationale Exécutive du Louvre). It is decreed that the Minister of the Interior will promptly erect "in one of the public squares of Paris, a bronze statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, & have it established in place of one of those of the former tyrants of France, overthrown by the people on August 10th".