Rousseau most commonly refers to 18th-century Swiss author and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and it may also refer to:

Sarah Fielding, the 18th-century author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding, lived in the town.

He argues that the speculative explanation of sentimental customs, posing as historical fact, had their origins among 18th-century antiquaries, notably Alban Butler, the author of Butler's Lives of Saints, and have been perpetuated even by respectable modern scholars.

Notable people from Bury St Edmunds include author Norah Lofts, who though actually born in Shipdham Norfolk, bases many of her stories in Baildon, the fictionalised Bury St Edmunds, artist Rose Mead, artist and printer Sybil Andrews, actors Bob Hoskins and Michael Maloney theatre director Sir Peter Hall, author Maria Lousie de la Ramé ( also known as Ouida ), Canadian journalist and author Richard Gwyn, cyclist James Moore, World War II Canadian general Guy Simonds, footballer Andy Marshall and the 18th-century landscape architect Humphry Repton, Bishop of Winchester and Lord High Chancellor Stephen Gardiner.

Theodor Wilhelm was apparently unaware that the U. S. Army and the USO had been distributing the prayer in Germany since the end of World War II, and later writers who were unaware that " Friedrich Oetinger " was a pseudonym ( even though the book was clearly written by a 20th-century author ) confused this name with the 18th-century Oetinger.

Caleb Bingham ( 1757 – 1817 ) was a textbook author of late 18th-century New England, whose works were also influential into the 19th and 20th.

Proving the truth of 18th-century author Henry Fielding's quip that " love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea ," the custom of banning servants from the drawing room during tea shows the hostess's desire to encourage free conversation among her guests.

| 30826 Coulomb || || Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, 18th-century French physicist, author of Sur l ' électricité et le magnétisme

18th-century poetry of all forms was in constant dialog: each author was responding and commenting upon the others.

The known Spanish manuscript was lost in the 18th or 19th centuries ; however, an 18th-century copy of it was discovered in the 1970s in the University of Sydney's Fisher Library among the books of Charles Nicholson, labelled in English " Transcribed from ms. in possession of the Revd Mr Edm.

Upon the death of his father in 1805, he joined the freethinking household of his mother at Auteuil, and spent two years mixing with the literary set of the so-called " ideologues ", philosophers of the 18th-century school, among whom he made many friends, notably Claude Charles Fauriel.

Charles Mason ( Oakridge Lynch, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, April 1728 – Philadelphia, October 25, 1786 ) was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason-Dixon line, which came to mark the division between the northern and southern United States ( 1764 – 1768 ).

Also forming part of the 18th-century Spanish collection is a large group of still lifes by Luis Meléndez ; small, cabinet paintings by Luis Paret y Alcázar such as The Masked Ball and Charles III eating before the Court ; tapestry cartoons by the Bayeu brothers ; and other paintings such as Antonio Carnicero's The Ascent of a Montgolfier Balloon in Aranjuez.

In addition, the German School collection includes 18th-century paintings by Anton Raphael Mengs, Court Painter to Charles III and another leading name in German art.

Those of Philip IV by Pietro Tacca and Charles II by Foggini date from the 17th century, while Philip V by Lorenzo Vaccaro is an 18th-century work.

His play When Crummles Played, drawn from characters from Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby and featuring those characters performing Lillo's George Barnwell, an 18th-century moral melodrama, opened at the Garrick Theatre on October 1, 1928.

The beginnings of the formal denial of the existence of Jesus can be traced to late 18th-century France, and the works of Constantin-Volney and Charles Dupuis.

An 18th-century commentator thought the new church " singular, not to say whimsical " and, later, Charles Dickens described it ( in Our Mutual Friend ) as appearing to be " some petrified monster, frightful and gigantic, on its back with its legs in the air ".

* A book on his life and work by Charles Dowsett was published in 1997 titled Sayat '- nova: An 18th-century Troubadour: a Biographical and Literary Study.

* Charles Dowsett, ( 1997 ), Sayatʻ-Nova: an 18th-century troubadour: a biographical and literary study, ISBN 90-6831-795-4

The Adam style found its niche from the late 1760s in upper-class and middle-class residences in 18th-century England, Scotland, Russia ( where it was introduced by Scottish architect Charles Cameron ), and post-Revolutionary War United States ( where it became known as Federal style and took on a variation of its own ).

Jane Engelhard ( born Marie Annette Reiss ) ( August 12, 1917-February 29, 2004 ) was an US philanthropist, best known for her marriage to billionaire industrialist Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., as well as her donation of an elaborate 18th-century Neapolitan crêche to the White House in 1967.

The origins of the Christ myth theory go back to late 18th-century France, and the works of Constantin-Volney and Charles Dupuis.

This account is based on an account by Gerald of Wales, repeated by 18th-century writer Charles Smith in his history

Bishop George Berkeley and David Hume are the best remembered major philosophers of 18th-century England, but other philosophers adapted the political ramifications of empiricism, including Bernard de Mandeville, Charles Davenant, and Adam Smith.

| 15969 Charlesgreen || || Charles Green, 18th-century British astronomer, who observed the 1769 transit of Venus from Tahiti

Charles Scott ( April 1739 – October 22, 1813 ) was an 18th-century American soldier who was elected the fourth governor of Kentucky in 1808.

Charles Hitchen ( c. 1675 – 1727 ) was a " thief-taker " ( unofficial policeman ) in 18th-century London who was also famously tried for homosexuality.

With advice from restoration architect Henry Charles Dean, SPNEA removed layers of lath and plaster to reveal original timbers, early 18th-century paneling, and one of the largest fireplaces in New England.

He later became a theological essayist and a friend and acquaintance of Samuel Johnson and other noted figures of 18th-century literary London.

Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and 18th-century life.

As Samuel Johnson observed when lamenting his failure to reach thus far on his 18th-century Hebridean journey:

* James Johnson ( musicologist ), late 18th-century Scottish musicologist

Feltham claimed that in 18th-century London a popular beverage called " three threads " was made consisting of a third of a pint each of ale, beer and twopenny ( the strongest beer, costing tuppence a quart ).

His grave has been claimed to be at Kirklees Priory near Mirfield in West Yorkshire, as implied by the 18th-century version of Robin Hood's Death, and there is a headstone there of dubious authenticity.

A manuscript in the hand of 18th-century literary forger Iolo Morganwg claimed he was the son of Saint Henwg of Llanhennock but this is contrary to every other fact and tradition.

Reference by 17th-century chroniclers has been claimed, but in the following all published accounts are 18th-century or later.

He claimed, “ the best sites for ‘ earth art ’ are sites that have been disrupted by industry, reckless urbanization, or nature ’ s own devastation .” While in earlier 18th-century formal characterizations of the pastoral and the sublime, something like a “ gash in the ground ” if encountered by a “ leveling improver ”, as described by Price, would have been smoothed over and the whole composition returned to a more aesthetically pleasing contour For Smithson, however, it was not necessary that the deformation become a visual aspect of a landscape ; by his anti-formalist logic, more important was the temporal scar worked over by natural or human intervention.

The name Leytonstone — in early documents Leyton-Atte-Stone — may derive from the large stone standing at the junction of Hollybush Hill and New Wanstead ; in the 18th-century an obelisk was mounted on top of it, and it has been claimed that it is the remains of a Roman milestone.

* Count of St. Germain (" Comte de Saint-Germain "), 18th-century adventurer / scientist and mysterious gentleman who claimed to be centuries old

Because the only written evidence for Fokás's voyages lay in Lok's account — researchers being unable to find records of the expedition in Spanish colonial archives — there was long much controversy over his discovery and, indeed, whether he had ever even existed as a real person ; several scholars have dismissed Juan de Fuca as entirely fictitious, and the 18th-century British explorer Captain Cook strongly doubted that the strait Fokás claimed to have discovered even existed ( although Cook actually sailed past the Strait of Juan de Fuca without entering it and did stop at Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island ).