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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th century Enlightenment philosopher, composer, and writer born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1712. He wrote several influential works including Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men, Discourse on Political Economy, and The Social Contract. Rousseau lived a nomadic life, leaving Geneva at age 16 and converting to Catholicism before settling in Paris, where he met his common law wife Thérèse Levasseur in 1745. He continued writing philosophy until his death in 1778 at age 66.

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th century Enlightenment philosopher, composer, and writer born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1712. He wrote several influential works including Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men, Discourse on Political Economy, and The Social Contract. Rousseau lived a nomadic life, leaving Geneva at age 16 and converting to Catholicism before settling in Paris, where he met his common law wife Thérèse Levasseur in 1745. He continued writing philosophy until his death in 1778 at age 66.

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th century Enlightenment philosopher, composer, and writer born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1712. He wrote several influential works including Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men, Discourse on Political Economy, and The Social Contract. Rousseau lived a nomadic life, leaving Geneva at age 16 and converting to Catholicism before settling in Paris, where he met his common law wife Thérèse Levasseur in 1745. He continued writing philosophy until his death in 1778 at age 66.

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    Jean-Jacques Rousse

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    -was an enlightenment phi
    losopher,composer and wr
    iter.
    -was born in Geneva,Switz
    erland on June 28, 1712.
    - death: July 2,1778 age of
    66.
    He continued to write until
    his death.
    -son of Isaac Rousseau, a
    watchmaker and dance ma
    ster, and Suzanne Bernard.
    -his father’s exile from the
    city to avoid arrest
    • At the tender age of 16 he left for France a
    nd converted to Catholicism.
    • he was put in the care of a pastor at nearby
    Bossey and subsequently apprenticed to an
    engraver.
    • left the city at the age of sixteen and came
    under the influence of a Roman Catholic co
    nvert noblewoman
    • 1745 Rousseau met Thérèse Levasseur.
    • 1750 write his first important work Discours
    sur les sciences et les arts (A Discourse on t
    he Sciences and the Arts).
    • Rousseau famously opened his book The s
    ocial contract“ Man is born free, yet every
    where he is in chains.”
    Key works:
    1750 Discourse on the Sciences and Arts
    1755 Discourse on the Origin and Found
    ations of Inequality among Men
    1755 Discourse on Political Economy
    1762 The Social Contract

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