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Top 10 interesting facts about Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Top 10 interesting facts about Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the first modern autobiography
2. The Social Contract is perhaps Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s most famous work
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s works influenced the French Revolution
4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed in liberty and freedom…or did he?
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s texts changed the way children were raised in the 18th century
6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote articles for the first Encyclopaedia
7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a prominent figure in the Enlightenment movement
8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau penned seven operas
9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau once argued that the arts made people immoral
10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is buried in the Panthéon
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Content: When King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were pulled down from power by the people, a group called the Jacobians emerged and took power. You may recognize the names of their leaders: a man named Robespierre and Saint-Just. The Jacobians may have had good intentions, but after the French Revolution came a time in history called the Reign of Terror. Enter the guillotine, the killing machine that took the lives of the king and queen, and other French nobles. Robespierre and his supporters were mostly inspired by Rousseau’s General Will. Inside, Rousseau urges leaders to work toward the common good of all people. In their own messed up way, the Jacobians felt that killing their corrupt leaders was in the name of the common good of everyone in France. 4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed in liberty and freedom…or did he?