Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe, to be printed sometime later, but with the name of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, substituted for that of Rousseau.

Rousseau was aware that he must seem like a hypocrite, standing there and arguing that he could not possibly permit a public performance.

Duclos understood what was bothering Rousseau: that the writer of the Prosopopoeia of Fabricius should now become known as the writer of an amusing little operetta.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau of Geneva was the first of many to present the Alps as a place of allure and beauty, banishing the prevalent conception of the mountains as a hellish wasteland inhabited by demons.

Jean-Jacques Ampère, a successful merchant, was an admirer of the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose theories of education ( as outlined in his treatise Émile ) were the basis of Ampère ’ s education.

Diderot, who had been under police surveillance since 1747, was swiftly identified as the author ... and was imprisoned for some months at Vincennes, where he was visited almost daily by Rousseau, at the time his closest and most assiduous ally.

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.

Rousseau, who was jealously sparing of his praises, addressed to him, in his Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, a fine panegyric ; and when a stranger flatteringly told Voltaire he had come to see a great man, the philosopher asked him if he had seen Abauzit.

Two of the most outspoken critics of the guild system were Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith, and all over Europe a tendency to oppose government control over trades in favour of laissez-faire free market systems was growing rapidly and making its way into the political and legal system.

This early form of democracy was recorded by the philosopher Rousseau, by the poet Wordsworth, by the dramatist Tirso de Molina and by the composer Iparraguirre, who wrote the piece called Gernikako Arbola.

Many other French philosophes ( intellectuals ) exerted philosophical influence on a continental scale, including Voltaire, Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose essay The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right was a catalyst for governmental and societal reform throughout Europe.

Her first effort was called Sunflower to the sun ISBN 0-7981-1228-X ( Human & Rousseau, 1976 ), followed by Herman Charles Bosman, a Pictorial Biography ISBN 0-628-02148-8 ( Perskor, 1981 ), and most recently by Herman Charles Bosman: Between the Lines ISBN 1-77007-163-6 ( Struik, 2005 ).

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (; 28 June 17122 July 1778 ) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French expression.

Rousseau was a successful composer of music.

During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophes among members of the Jacobin Club.

Rousseau, a Freemason, was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.

Rousseau was born in Geneva, which was at the time a city-state and a Protestant associate of the Swiss Confederacy.

Rousseau was proud that his family, of the moyen order ( or middle-class ), had voting rights in the city.

The house where Rousseau was born at number 40, place du Bourg-de-Four

Rousseau had to admit that though he couldn't agree to a public performance, he would indeed, just for his own private satisfaction, dearly love to know how his work would sound when done by professional musicians and by trained voices.

Rousseau believed that young boys should avoid formal schooling and pursue instead an “ education direct from nature .” Ampère ’ s father actualized this ideal by allowing his son to educate himself within the walls of his well-stocked library.

They were brought together by their friend in common at that time, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

The concepts in the Declaration come from the philosophical and political principles of the Age of Enlightenment, such as individualism, the social contract as theorized by the Swiss philosopher Rousseau, and the separation of powers espoused by the Baron de Montesquieu.

There is one statement by Derrida which he regarded as the axial statement of his whole essay on Rousseau ( part of the highly influential Of Grammatology, 1967 ), and which is perhaps his most quoted and famous statement ever.

Progressive education can be traced as far back as to the works of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with both being respectively known as paternal forerunners to the ideas that would be demonstrated by the likes of Dewey.

Although he did not consider himself an educator, his research and theories closely resemble those outlined by Rousseau in Emile.

Mistress Page ( Julie Hughett ) and Falstaff ( John Rousseau ) in The Merry Wives of Windsor, staged by Pacific Repertory Theatre at the Golden Bough Playhouse in Carmel, CA, in 1999

* Bosman at his best: a choice of stories and sketches ( 1965 ) edited by Lionel Abrahams ISBN 0-7981-0249-7 Human & Rousseau

* Bosman's Johannesburg ( 1986 ) edited by Stephen Gray ISBN 0-7981-2001-0 Human & Rousseau

* Selected Stories ( 1980 ) edited by Stephen Gray ISBN 0-7981-1031-7 Human & Rousseau

* The Bosman I like ( 1981 ) edited by Patrick Mynhardt ISBN 0-7981-1179-8 Human & Rousseau

Rousseau wrote that he persuaded Thérèse to give each of the newborns up to a foundling hospital, for the sake of her " honor ".

As early as 1819, in his famous speech “ On Ancient and Modern Liberty ,” the political philosopher Benjamin Constant, a proponent of constitutional monarchy and representative democracy, criticized Rousseau, or rather his more radical followers ( specifically the Abbé de Mably ), for allegedly believing that " everything should give way to collective will, and that all restrictions on individual rights would be amply compensated by participation in social power .”

Emile attempts to “ find a way of resolving the contradictions between the natural man who is ‘ all for himself ’ and the implications of life in society .” The famous opening line does not bode well for the educational project —“ Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things ; everything degenerates in the hands of man .” But Rousseau acknowledges that every society “ must choose between making a man or a citizen ” and that the best “ social institutions are those that best know how to denature man, to take his absolute existence from him in order to give him a relative one and transport the I into the common unity .” To “ denature man ” for Rousseau is to suppress some of the “ natural ” instincts that he extols in The Social Contract, published the same year as Emile, but while it might seem that for Rousseau such a process would be entirely negative, this is not so.

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.

As a condition of his return he was not allowed to publish any books, but after completing his Confessions, Rousseau began private readings in 1771.

* Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( Les Confessions ), 1770, published 1782

* Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau English translation, as published by Project Gutenberg, 2004 # 3913

Examples include the poet Algernon Swinburne ( as implied repeatedly in his poetry ) and the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as detailed in his autobiography Confessions:

The Confessions of Jean-Jaques Rousseau.

Apart from the fact that Rousseau ascribes these words to an unknown princess — vaguely referred to as a " great princess ", there is some level of thought that he invented it altogether, seeing as Confessions was, on the whole, a rather inaccurate autobiography.

Rousseau in his Confessions p. 160 Penguin Classic notes it as one of the novels read with his father and says it " was the one that recurred most frequently to my mind ".

* Bekenntnisse ( Übersetzung des Rousseauschen Werks aus dem Französischen ) ( Confessions "– Translation of the Works of Rousseau from the French ), 1786 – 90

** Rousseau, Confessions

This relationship became noteworthy because in 1757, while Saint-Lambert was away on military duty in the Seven Years ' War, Jean-Jacques Rousseau suddenly conceived a mad passion for Sophie, which he wrote about in his Confessions.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his autobiography Confessions ( published posthumously in 1782, but completed in 1769 ), relates that " a great princess " is said to have advised, with regard to peasants who had no bread, " Qu ' ils mangent de la brioche ", commonly inaccurately translated as " Let them eat cake ".

# Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Discourse on Inequality ; On Political Economy ; Emile ; The Social Contract ; Confessions

* Confessions ( Jean-Jacques Rousseau ), an autobiography by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d ' Esclavelles d ' Épinay ( March 11, 1726 – April 17, 1783 ) was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives malicious reports of her in his Confessions.

Rousseau, in his Confessions, asserted that the inclination was all on her side ; but as, after her visit to Geneva ( 1757-59 ), Rousseau became her bitter enemy, little weight can be given to his statements on this point.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau turned it to a more secular purpose in his Confessions.

The Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

In modern times, it is often published with the title The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to distinguish it from Saint Augustine's Confessions.

* Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau English translation, as published by Project Gutenberg, 2004 # 3913