Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva on 28 June 1712, the son of the watchmaker Isaac Rousseau. An apprentice engraver, he left Geneva in 1728 and joined Madame de Warens in Savoy, who had him convert to Catholicism and with whom he shared his life for a long time. A music copyist in Paris, he proposed a new system of musical notation in 1742. In 1762 two of his books were condemned and burned in Paris and Geneva, and he had to go into exile, in Switzerland and then in England. He died at Ermenonville on 2 July 1778.

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• NovelJulie, or the New HeloiseJulie ou la Nouvelle HéloïseJean-Jacques Rousseau · 1761LiteraturePublic domain