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J E A N J A C Q U E S R O U S S E A U
1712-1778
Who Was He?
Jean Jacques Rousseau was a French writer,
philosopher, and composer. He was one of the
most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment.
His Life:
He left Geneva in 1728 and move to Annecy,
where he met Louise de Warens. They developed
a romantic relationship for a while. He later gave
up Genevan citizenship to convert to Catholicism.
He then went to Paris to become a musician and
composer. He presented his new system of
numbered musical notation but it was rejected
even though it was ingenious and compatible with
typography.He expressed his political view in some
of his works, which forced him to leave France. He
settled in Switzerland and in 1764 he began writing
his autobiography, the Confessions.