Author

Théodore Simon Jouffroy(1796–1842)

Théodore Simon Jouffroy is documented in Fuller’s letters, journals, and manuscripts (1836–1840). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Harriet Martineau, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Journals · Manuscripts
Documented: 1836–1840

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Théodore Simon Jouffroy’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

undatedchapters on mysticism and PantheismAttested
“Reading in Jouffroy the Chapters on mysticism and Pantheism excited greatly my desire to be a thinker.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
'Reading in Jouffroy the Chapters on mysticism and Pantheism' is an explicit, specific reading statement.

In Fuller’s words

“It may prove as your Jouffroy says it is with the French ministry; the public wants something positive, and finding such and such persons excellent at fault finding raises them to be the rulers. when lo! They have no noble and full yea, to match their shrill and bold Nay, and are hurled down again_”

Introduction to Ethics, Including a Critical Survey of Moral Systems · Letter to Rev. W.H. Channing · 1840

When Fuller engaged with Théodore Simon Jouffroy

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist4records

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)1record

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1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Jouffroy in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1836—

Journal December 1836

p7–8

mentionedManuscript page

“Gave me an account of Dahmiron's book, Jouffroi's – Dahmiron had given him new light about Spinoza. Expressed much interest about Jacobi.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal December 1836." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 3.

Inferred Fuller writes 'Jouffroi's' book without a title; most likely work is the Mélanges philosophiques (1833), translated into English by George Ripley (Boston, 1838), which was the most discussed Jouffroy text in Transcendentalist circles at this date. Channing discusses 'Jouffroi's' book alongside Damiron's.

1837—

Letter to Harriet Martineau

p308

analyzed · read

“When Jouffroy writes his lectures, I am not conversant with all his topics of thought, but I can appreciate his lucid style and admirable method.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller names "Jouffroy" and "his lectures," using him as a second intellectual model of method alongside Herschel and admiring "his lucid style and admirable method." Hudspeth identified Theodore Simon Jouffroy's Cours de droit naturel and Cours d'histoire de la philosophie moderne.

1839—

Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger

p53–p54

analyzed · readManuscript page

“How express and admirable these remarks of Jouffroy's!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Fuller is 'Reading in Jouffroy the Chapters on mysticism and Pantheism.' She identifies specific chapters ('on skepticism of the present age,' 'on mysticism and Pantheism') and responds to his treatment of Spinoza.

1840—

Letter to Rev. W.H. Channing

analyzedManuscript page

“It may prove as your Jouffroy says it is with the French ministry; the public wants something positive, and finding such and such persons excellent at fault finding raises them to be the rulers.”

Also reprinted in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. II: 1839-1841. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. "Letter to Rev. W.H. Channing." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 1, Folder: 38.

Fuller attributes the analogy to 'your Jouffroy' (addressing W.H.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1833—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p26

quoted · read

“as Jouffroy says it was with the successive French ministries: "The public wants something positive, and, seeing that such and such persons are excellent at fault-finding, it raises them to be rulers, when, lo !”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred The archive identifies a passage referencing Théodore Jouffroy's Mélanges philosophiques (1833), likely encountered by Margaret Fuller in either French or its partial English translation.