Biography of french revolution jean jacques

Jean-Jacques Rousseau  ©French writer and political theorist of the Enlightenment, Rousseau's work inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the romantic generation.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva on 28 June His mother died when he was young, and Rousseau was initially brought up by his father, a watchmaker. He left Geneva aged 16 and travelled around France, where he met his benefactress, the Baronnesse de Warens, who gave him the education that turned him into a philosopher.

Rousseau reached Paris in and soon met Denis Diderot, another provincial man seeking literary fame.

They formed the core of the intellectual group, the 'Philosophes'.

Biography of french revolution jean jacques

Eschewing an easy life as a popular composer, in he published his first important work 'A Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts' (). Its central theme was that man had become corrupted by society and civilisation. In , he published 'Discourse on the Origin of Inequality'.

He claimed that o