Augustine ( 354 – 430 ) applied the title Confessions to his autobiographical work, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau used the same title in the 18th century, initiating the chain of confessional and sometimes racy and highly self-critical, autobiographies of the Romantic era and beyond.

Many of his late paintings celebrate farm life, including many where he used his work horse " Rousseau " as a model.

In France, there was Lettres persanes ( 1721 ) by Montesquieu, followed by Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( 1761 ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Laclos ' Les Liaisons dangereuses ( 1782 ), which used the epistolary form to great dramatic effect, because the sequence of events was not always related directly or explicitly.

When Rousseau subsequently became celebrated as a theorist of education and child-rearing, his abandonment of his children was used by his critics, including Voltaire and Edmund Burke, as the basis for ad hominem attacks.

These men truly liked Rousseau and enjoyed his ability to converse on any subject, but they also used him as a way of getting back at Louis XV and the political faction surrounding his mistress, Mme de Pompadour.

Denis Rousseau used polywater as a classic example of pathological science, and has since written on other examples as well.

Tabula rasa is used by 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to support his argument that warfare is an advent of society and agriculture, rather than something that occurs from the human state of nature.

In French ( and France ( Wand )), it is le Pays wallon: The Walloon country included the greatest part of to-day's Belgium, the Province of Flandre orientale, the Province of Flandre occidentale both named Flandre wallonne, the Province of Namur, the Hainaut, the Limbourg, the pays de Liège and even the Luxembourg For Félix Rousseau, Walloon country is, after le Roman pays the old name of the country of the Walloons and the nickname Romande was commonly used to describe Walloons until the late 19th century.

Louis Philippe, a member of the Jacobin club, used his wealth and family connections to help spread the revolutionary ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Montesquieu.

Behind La Grenette is the restaurant La Clef, in which Jean-Jacques Rousseau used to eat.

Jean Rousseau ( 1 October 1644 – 1 June 1699 ) was a French viol player, theorist, composer, and author remembered principally for his Traité de la viole ( 1687 ), a valuable source of information on the performance practices of his time, as well as on techniques used in the construction of viols ( Green 2001 ).

As used by Rousseau, the " general will " is identical to the rule of law, and to Spinoza's mens una.

Emile is not a panegyric for the loss of the noble savage, a term Rousseau never actually used.

Equally important, Stieglitz used this space to introduce to the United States some of the most avant-garde European artists of the time, including Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, Henri Rousseau, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brâncuşi, Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp.

Henri Rousseau ( 1844 – 1910 ), an artist that Picasso knew and admired and who was not a Fauve, had his large jungle scene The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope also hanging near the works by Matisse and which may have had an influence on the particular sarcastic term used in the press.

In 1990, Jean Michel Jarre used Rousseau again to rewrite all the intros of the music for La Défense Concert.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also influenced by the devastation following the earthquake, whose severity he believed was due to too many people living within the close quarters of the city.

" The dialogue between Voltaire and Rousseau on the Lisbon earthquake: The emergence of a social science view.

Rousseau, through the priest, leads his readers through an argument with only one concluding belief: “ natural religion .” Even more importantly, after this brief excursion into religious education, religion does not play any role in Emile ’ s life ; religion, however important to Rousseau ( Rousseau is believed to have created the Savoyard Vicar by combining the traits of two Savoyard priests whom he had known in his childhood: Abbé Gaime from Turin and Abbé Gâtier from Annecy ), is insignificant in Emile ’ s education and socialization.

Rousseau furthered this assumption in Emile where he made a standpoint against students being subordinate to teachers and that memorization of facts would not lead to an education.

Rousseau as noted above, was an enthusiastic supporter of the Italians against Jean-Philippe Rameau and others, making an important contribution with his Letter on French Music.

Wounded feelings gave rise to a bitter three-way quarrel between Rousseau and Madame d ' Epinay ; her lover, the philologist Grimm ; and their mutual friend, Diderot, who took their side against Rousseau.

" Rousseau, he wrote, " has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments ; and, as he scorns to dissemble his contempt for established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

Isolated, Rousseau, never emotionally very stable, suffered a serious decline in his mental health and began to experience paranoid fantasies about plots against him involving Hume and others.

This is clear from the Discourse on Political Economy, where Rousseau emphasizes that the general will exists to protect individuals against the mass, not to require them to be sacrificed to it.

Burke's " Letter to a Member of the National Assembly ", published in February 1791, was a diatribe against Rousseau, whom he considered the paramount influence on the French Revolution ( his ad hominem attack did not really engage with Rousseau's political writings ).

In this adolescent period, Derrida found in the works of philosophers and writers such as Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Gide, an instrument of revolt against the family and society:

Absolutism continued to be the dominant political principle of sovereignty until the 1789 French Revolution and the regicide against Louis XVI, which established the concept of popular sovereignty upheld by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

The late 18th century was a period of political, economic, intellectual, and cultural reforms, the Enlightenment ( represented by figures such as Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Adam Smith ), but also involving early Romanticism, and climaxing with the French Revolution, where freedom of the individual and nation was asserted against privilege and custom.

Nevertheless, the embittered Rousseau nursed a grudge against Rameau for the rest of his life.

Rousseau was a major participant in the second great quarrel that erupted over Rameau's work, the so-called Querelle des Bouffons of 1752 – 54, which pitted French tragédie en musique against Italian opera buffa.

In his book, Democracy: Can ’ t We Do Better Than That ?, Avakian has developed polemics against Hannah Arendt and the " theory of totalitarianism " as well as other prominent theoreticians of democracy, including Locke and Rousseau.

In 1845 Rousseau played a match against the Englishman Charles Stanley for the title of chess champion of the US, the first contest ever for that title.

Although serious doubts were raised about the Enlightenment prior to the 1790s ( e. g. in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in France and J. G. Hamann in Germany in particular ), the Reign of Terror during the French revolution fueled a major reaction against the Enlightenment, which many writers blamed for undermining traditional beliefs that sustained the ancien regime, thereby fomenting revolution.

This is clear from the Discourse on Political Economy, where Rousseau emphasizes that the general will exists to protect individuals against the mass, not to require them to be sacrificed to it.

However, Rousseau was then in poor health, embittered against the world, and consequently was difficult to approach.

The influence of classically trained artists was against them, and not until 1848 was Rousseau presented adequately to the public.

Rousseau helped the team reach the 1957 Memorial Cup finals where they would play against the Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters.

Rousseau also had a 5 goal game against the Detroit Red Wings on February 1, 1964.

The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate ; as Rousseau asserts, only the people, in the form of the sovereign, have that all-powerful right.

Sieyès and Condorcet also advanced the idea of " limited privilege ," against perpetual privileges, thus preparing the inclusion in the public domain of the works of Racine, Molière, Rousseau, Voltaire, etc.

On February 1, Montreal forward Bobby Rousseau scored five goals against Detroit in a 9 – 3 whipping of the Red Wings, one behind the league record for a single game and the first time five goals had been scored by a player in a single match in nearly a decade.