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Page 1: Jean jacques rousseau

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

By: Miriam Berry

Page 2: Jean jacques rousseau

CHILDHOOD

Born in Geneva, Switzerland on June 28,1712

Family was pious Calvinists and refugees from

France

His mother died shortly after childbirth

His father was a poor watchmaker and dance

master

When he was ten his father fled Geneva

He was then raised by his mothers sister

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SCHOOLING

He stopped traditional schooling at the age of 12

Was apprenticed to several trades but had no success

In 1728 he ran away from Geneva and joined the Catholic church

Took a job as a footman to a noblewoman in Annecy

Later became lover to a wealthy widow who provided for his

education in the classics and music

In 1738 he journeyed to Montpellier to improve his health and

when he returned his lover had found a replacement

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CAREER

Attempted teaching but did not like it

Was not recognized for his system of

musical notation

Was an unsatisfactory secretary to the

French ambassador in Venice

Finally moved back to Paris after his

failed attempts

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FAMILY

In Paris in 1745 he took a mistress, Therese le

Vasseur

They had five children

Jean took them all to the Foundling Hospital to be

raised as orphans

He later married Therese in 1768

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PUBLISHED WORKS

Wrote an essay called “Discourse on the Arts and Sciences”

and won a literary prize from the Academy of Dijon in 1749

This gave him literary fame and he returned to Geneva in1754

There he rejoined the protestant church and regained his

citizenship

He published several essays and had some different

mistresses in the next few years.

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EXILE

In 1762 he published his most famous works, “The

Social Contract” and “Emile”

Due to the content of these books about religion

and his opinion that there should be a democratic

city-state in France he was exiled by the

government.

He did not like it so in 1770 he returned to Paris

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LATER LIFE

Back in Paris he published several more less

offensive works and an opera.

Rousseau suffered from psychological feelings of

persecution and lived in a cottage at Ermenonville

for the last few months of his life

Due to his mental and physical health problems he

died of a stroke on July 2, 1778

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EMILE

Rousseau wrote this novel to show his beliefs on education.

It consists of five books and the different stages of learning

Book 1: Infancy: Goodness of men, keep children should be

kept form forming bad habits

Book 2: “The age of Nature”: purpose of education, school

environment, self motivated learning, discipline and physical

education

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EMILE (CONTINUED)

Book 3: Pre-adolescence : Intellectual

education, geography, science, history and other

subjects are learned by desire to learn them

Book 4: Puberty: social attitudes, and natural

religion

Book 5: Adulthood: love, education of women

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PHILOSOPHIES

People are inherently good but they become

corrupted by the evils of society.

He believed in liberty, equality, and fraternity

“Make the citizen good by training, and

everything else will follow.” - Jean

Jacques Rousseau