© Jean-Jacques Monney - Livre
"En carte postale, vie et oeuvre de Rousseau". Edition
Slatkine, Genève
The house and the street Jean-Jacques Rousseau
© Collection Jean-Jacques Monney, Geneva
ED. Charnaux Brothers, Geneva
Since 1718, Jean-Jacques followed his father Isaac, who had sold the 40, Grand-Rue to settle to the 28 of the street of Coutance, on the 3rd floor, in the Suburb of St-Gervais.
Here also lived his/her brother François and devoted aunt Suzon, younger sister by Isaac. On the first floor between court and garden, was installed a clock and watch maker, Jean Baddelet, to which Jean-Jacques returned visit. That political remarks, that talks impassioned on the city and the Republic, heard the Rousseau child the evenings of summer, on the terraces of Coutance.