Julie, or the New Heloise

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Should I live for centuries, the sweet period of my youth would not be reborn, nor effaced from my memory.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Topic

Remembering one's youth Looking back Youth

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source

Julie, or the New Heloise

Medium

Novel

Genre

Epistolary novel

Language

French

Time

1761 1760s 18th century

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Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Lettres de Deux Amans, habitans d'une petite Ville au pied des Alpes [Letters from two lovers, living in a small town at the foot of the Alps]. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1761, pt. 6, letter 7.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Julie, or the New Heloise, translated by Philip Stewart and Jean Vache. Dartmouth College Press, 1997, pt. 6, letter 7.