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Jean Jacques Rousseau Biography

Jean Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan born son of a watchmaker whose lack of early education belied his later life thinking and writing abilities.

His mother died shortly his childbirth and his father fled Geneva to escape the wrath of the authorities for various misdemeanors when Jean Jacques was 10 years old.

At 16 he fled to France where he met and charmed the Baronnesse de Warens to such a degree she became his benefactress, educator and lover.

When he finally flew her nest he was both a man and a deep thinking philosopher such was her influence on his thought processes.

Paris beckoned and once Rousseau had written his award winning A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences in 1750 his stock as a philosophical writer had risen significantly.

More great works were to follow earning him admiration, prestige and the jealous brickbats of his peers such as Voltaire.

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