Cine s-a întâlnit cu Françoise-Louise de Warens?

Françoise-Louise de Warens, born Louise Éléonore de la Tour du Pil, also called Madame de Warens (31 March 1699 – 29 July 1762), was the benefactress and mistress of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Warens was born in Vevey, into a Swiss Protestant family who had immigrated to Annecy, but became a Roman Catholic in 1726 in order to receive a church pension which had been instated to increase the spread of Roman Catholicism near Geneva, then a bastion of Protestantism.

She was known to have led a liberal life for a woman of her time. She annulled her marriage to M. de Warens in 1726 after failing in a clothing business. Rousseau met her for the first time on Palm Sunday 1728. It was said that she was a spy and a converter for Savoy, then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia. Though Warens was originally a teacher to Rousseau, they became sexually engaged after she openly initiated him in the matters of love and "intimacy". Françoise-Louise de Warens died in poverty in 1762 in Chambéry, of which Rousseau did not learn until six years afterwards. Rousseau describes his relationship with her in his Confessions.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (n. 28 iunie 1712, Geneva, Republica Geneva^⁠(d) – d. 2 iulie 1778, Ermenonville, Picardie^⁠(d), Franța) a fost un filozof elvețian, scriitor și compozitor, unul dintre cei mai iluștri gânditori ai Iluminismului. A influențat hotărâtor, alături de Voltaire și Diderot, spiritul revoluționar, principiile de drept și conștiința socială a epocii; ideile lui se regăsesc masiv în schimbările promovate de Revoluția franceză din 1789.