Rousseau emile6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1745 Rousseau met Thérèse Levasseur, who would become his lifelong partner they eventually married in 1768. In 1742, Rousseau was introduced to Denis Diderot by 1744 he was in Paris contributing articles on music to Diderot’s and d'Alembert’s Encyclopédie. An autodidact who wrote with difficulty, his interests ranged widely. Later in life, he tried his hand as a composer, a novelist and an educational, political and ethical theorist.ĭuring his appointment as a tutor in the 1730s, Rousseau was introduced to the key figures of the French Enlightenment. Early years would find him a house servant, a frustrated apprentice engraver, Catholic priest-in-training, music copiest and teacher. ![]() The word to describe Rousseau’s life is peripatetic. Rousseau’s mother, Suzanne Bernard, died shortly after Jean-Jacques’s birth in Geneva on June 28, 1712. Rousseau’s life was colorful, complicated and included moments of great personal tragedy and intellectual achievement. Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, late 18th C. ![]()
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