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Jean-Jacques Rousseau has French origins.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is Notable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Huguenot who did not emigrate (1540-1790).

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born to a family of French Huguenot origins in the Republic of Geneva on the 28th of June, 1712. Rousseau went on to become a prominent philosopher, specializing in the subjects of economics, power relations, political thought and social theory, heavily influencing the development of radical thought across Europe and France in particular. Rousseau is perhaps best known for his social contract theory, published inThe Social Contract in 1762, which provided an intellectual foundation for popular revolutionary sentiment in Europe and beyond. HisDiscourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men was also a foundational work of political and social philosophy as well as economics, influencing Georgist, Keynesian and Marxian economists at the very least.

Rousseau had at least one child by his long-term partner,Marie-Thérèse Levasseur, but they were given up to foundling hospitals and what became of them is uncertain.^[1] It is not clear if they ever legally married.

Rousseau died on July 2nd, 1778 at Ermenonville in the Kingdom of France and was initially interred in a tomb built for him by Hubert Robert. In 1794 his remains were reburied in the Panthéon in Paris by the French revolutionaries who had been influenced by him as a gesture of honour, particularly by the Jacobins.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑Confessions Book IX, Page 85, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions
2. ↑Liste des personnes transférées au Panthéon de Paris, Wikipédia français

See also:

• Wikipedia: Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Wikidata:Item Q6527,en:Wikipedia
• The New Englander (New Haven, 1843) Vol. 1,Page 179-83.

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