Abstract EN:

The topic of our thesis was an attempt to point out the main characteristics of jean-jacques rousseau's sensitiveness through three of his works : la nouvelle heloise, les confessions and les reveries du promeneur solitaire. We have carried out this analysis by having a critical reading of the above mentioned titles. As far as we are concerned, our own interest in his works can be justified as follows : we have aimed at finding out the reasons why jean-jacques rousseau, although he was a very contradictory individual in his behaviour, did never stop puzzling his contemporaries. The interest in the autobiographical works of jean-jacques rousseau has never been denied since many thesis and books have been written all over the last thirty years.