Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

His life(28 June 1712  – 2 July 1778)• Rousseau was born in Geneva.• Rousseau's father, Isaac

Rousseau, was a watchmaker.

• Rousseau's mother, Suzanne Bernard Rousseau, the daughter of a Calvinist preacher, died of puerperal fever nine days after his birth.

• He and his older brother François were brought up by their father and a paternal aunt, also named Suzanne.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

His life• By the age of 5 or 6 his father

encouraged his love of reading. Later on he would read to his father while he made watches.

• When Rousseau was 10, his father, an avid hunter, got into a legal quarrel with a wealthy landowner on whose lands he had been caught trespassing.

• To avoid certain defeat in the courts, he moved away to Nyon in the territory of Bern.

• Jean-Jacques was left with his maternal uncle.

• Rousseau’ uncle packed him, along with his own son, Abraham Bernard, away to board for two years with a Calvinist minister in a rural community outside Geneva.

• Rousseau, who was always deeply moved by religious services, for a time even dreamed of becoming a Protestant minister.

• When he was 15, he ran away from Geneva. he took shelter with a Roman Catholic priest, who introduced him to Françoise-Louise de Warens.• He was sent to Turin the

capital of Savoy. • He converted to

Catholicism, retracting to the severity of Calvinism insitence on the total depravity of man.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Independence• Rousseau worked as a servant, secretary,

and tutor.• Rousseau lived with Francoise and started

a relationship with her when he has 20.• When he was 25, he received a small

inheritance from his mother.• From 1743 to 1744 he worked as secretary

for the ambassador to Venice.• He became the lover of Therese Levasseur.• Rousseau was so interested in music.• He returned to Geneva in 1754, and gained

the citizenship.

• Rousseau enjoyed the support and patronage of the Duc de Luxembourg, and the Prince de Conti.

• Rousseau published Emile: or, On Education. It rejected original sin and divine Revelation, both Protestant and Catholic authorities took offense.

• This caused Rousseau and his books to be banned from France and Geneva. He was condemned from the pulpit by the Archbishop of Paris, his books were burned, and warrants were issued for his arrest.

• He had to flee, and he was helped by his protectors.

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• Rousseau began suffering a serious decline in his mental health and experienced paranoid fantasies.

• Rousseau returned in 1767 under a false name. In 1768 he marriaged Thérèse.

• In 1770 they were allowed to return to Paris. As a condition of his return he was not allowed to publish any books.

His last years.

• In 1778, Rousseau suffered a hemorrhage and died, aged 66.

• Rousseau was initially buried at Ermenonville, France. Sixteen years later, his remains were moved to the Panthéon in Paris in 1794.

Studies

Jean Jacques Rousseau

MusicSeminary

Philosophy

Mathematics

Jobs

Jean Jacques Rousseau

At the age of 13, he worked with a Notary.

After that he worked for an engraver.

At the age of 27, he took the job of Tutor in Lyon.

From 1743 to 1744, he worked as secretary for the ambassador of Venice.

Academic Contributions

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Music In 1742, Rousseau moved to Paris in

order to present the Académie des Sciences with a new system of numbered musical notation.

He wrote both the words and music of his opera Le Devin du Village

EncyclopedieRpusseau contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D’Alembert’ great Encyclopedie.

Academic ContributionsJean Jacques Rousseau

Books Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse. – 1761Du Contrat Social – 1762Emile: or, On Education The Discourse on the Origin and

Basis of Inequality Among Men – 1755