传统观点认为，《社会契约论》在法国大革命之前籍籍无名，学界直到最近才颠覆这个论断（但译者似乎不太同意，偏偏给那句话翻反了

And yet, until recently, and persisting even today, has been an almost universal belief among scholars that The Social Contract was one of Rousseau’s least-read books until 1789, when the French Revolutionaries rescued it from near-oblivion.