Saint-Preux
fictional character
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Rousseau’s “The New Eloise”
- In Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Years of seclusion and exile of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The central character, Saint-Preux, is a middle-class preceptor who falls in love with his upper-class pupil, Julie. She returns his love and yields to his advances, but the difference between their classes makes marriage between them impossible. Baron d’Étange, Julie’s father, has indeed promised her to a fellow…
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