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Rousseau Ideas
Jean Jacques Rousseau was a very famous french philosopher. He wrote many
popular stories and operas during his life. He was a very smart man who was born
into a disturbed family. Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva on June 28th,
in 1712. Rousseau’s mother died while giving birth to him. His father was a
very violent tempered man and he paid little attention to Jean’s training. His
father would eventually desert him. The fact that his father deserted him gave
Jean a passion for reading. Rousseau developed a special fondness for
Plutarch’s Lives. In 1728, when he was 16, Jean was first apprenticed to a
notary and then to a coppersmith. Rousseau couldn’t stand the rigid discipline
so he ran away. After a few days of wandering, he fell in with Roman Catholic
priests at Consignon in Savoy, who turned him over to Madame de Warens at Annecy.
She sent him to an educational institution at Turin. Rousseau was charged with
theft and began to wander again. In 1730, he was at Chambery, he lived with
Madame de Warens again. In her household he spent eight years diverting himself
in the enjoyment of nature, the study of music, the reading of the English,
German, and French philosophers and chemistry, pursuing the study of mathematics
and Latin, and enjoying the playhouse and opera. Over the next few months, Jean
spent his time at Venice as secretary of the French ambassador, Comte de
Montaignu. Up to this time, when he was thirty-nine, his life could be described
as subterranean. He then returned to Paris, where his opera Les Muses Galantes
failed, copied music, and was secretary of Madame Dupin. It was here that he
became a contributor to the Encyclopedie. His gifts of entertainment, reckless
manner, and boundless vanity attracted attention. In 1752, his operetta Devin du
village was met with great success. His second sensational writing assured him
of fame. It was called Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de
l’inegalite parmi les hommes. In 1754, he revisited Geneva where he received
great acclamation, and called himself from then on a “citizen of Geneva”.
Two years later, he retired to a cottage in the woods of Montmorency, where in
the quiet of nature he expected to spend his life. Unfortunately, domestic
troubles, his violent passion for Countess d’Houdetot, and Ms morbid mistrust
and nervous excitability, which lost him his friends, induced him to change his
residence to a chateau in the park of the duke of Luxembourg, Montmorency. From...
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