Julie d’Étanges

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fictional character literary character novel heroine

Julie d’Étanges is the virtuous yet tragically fated heroine of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s epistolary novel "Julie, or the New Heloise," whose conflicted love and moral struggles embody Enlightenment debates about passion, duty, and social order.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Julie d’Étange	3
Julie d’Étanges canonical	2

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ novel heroine ⓘ
appearsIn	Julie, or the New Heloise ⓘ Julie, or the New Heloise ⓘ surface form: La Nouvelle Héloïse
associatedTheme	education of feeling ⓘ female virtue ⓘ marriage as social institution ⓘ religious sentiment ⓘ
centralThemeRelation	conflict between passion and duty ⓘ tension between individual desire and social order ⓘ
createdBy	Jean-Jacques Rousseau ⓘ
deathCircumstances	dies after rescuing a child from the water ⓘ
diesBy	drowning ⓘ
emotionalCharacteristic	conflicted ⓘ passionate ⓘ
ethicalConflict	love for Saint-Preux vs obedience to father ⓘ personal happiness vs social duty ⓘ
familyName	d’Étanges ⓘ
firstPublicationYear	1761 ⓘ
genreContext	epistolary novel ⓘ
givenName	Julie ⓘ
hasCorrespondenceForm	letters ⓘ
hasCousin	Claire d’Orbe ⓘ
hasFather	Baron d’Étanges ⓘ
hasHusband	Baron de Wolmar ⓘ
influences	Romantic conceptions of love ⓘ sentimental novel tradition ⓘ
inLoveWith	Saint-Preux ⓘ
languageOfWork	French ⓘ
literaryFunction	vehicle for Rousseau’s social and moral ideas ⓘ
literaryPeriodContext	French Enlightenment ⓘ surface form: Enlightenment
livesAt	Clarens, Switzerland ⓘ surface form: Clarens
moralCharacteristic	dutiful ⓘ virtuous ⓘ
moralOutcome	chooses duty over passion ⓘ
narrativeRole	tragic heroine ⓘ
nationalityInFiction	Swiss ⓘ
postMarriageRole	moral center of Clarens household ⓘ
readerReceptionRole	model of sensibility for 18th-century readers ⓘ
religiousOrientation	deeply pious in later life ⓘ
roleInStructure	principal letter-writer ⓘ
settingRegion	Lake Geneva region ⓘ
socialClass	aristocracy ⓘ
symbolizes	Enlightenment moral sensibility ⓘ virtue tested by passion ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Julie, or the New Heloise → mainCharacter → Julie d’Étanges ⓘ

Baron de Wolmar → spouseOf → Julie d’Étanges ⓘ

Saint-Preux → tutorOf → Julie d’Étanges ⓘ

this entity surface form: Julie d’Étange

Saint-Preux → inLoveWith → Julie d’Étanges ⓘ

this entity surface form: Julie d’Étange

Saint-Preux → communicatesWith → Julie d’Étanges ⓘ

this entity surface form: Julie d’Étange