14 events with tag "Rousseau"
1728
ID: 491
Rousseau's wandering years begin - converts to Catholicism in Turin, becomes lover of Madame de Warens
ID: 491
1742
ID: 516
Rousseau arrives in Paris with musical notation system, enters salons through Diderot and d'Alembert
ID: 516
1745
ID: 522
Rousseau begins affair with illiterate laundress Thérèse Levasseur; will abandon five children to foundling hospital
ID: 522
1749
ID: 533
Rousseau's 'illumination' on road to Vincennes visiting imprisoned Diderot - vision that civilization corrupts
ID: 533
1754
ID: 549
Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality: 'first person who fenced plot and said mine was founder of civil society'
ID: 549
1761
ID: 561
Rousseau's 'Julie, or the New Heloise' creates cult of sentiment prefiguring Romanticism
ID: 561
1762
ID: 565
Rousseau's paranoid flight across Europe begins - arrest warrant, develops persecution mania
ID: 565
1762
ID: 563
April 1762
Rousseau's Social Contract: 'Man is born free, everywhere in chains' - 'forced to be free'
ID: 563
1762
ID: 564
May 1762
Rousseau's Emile - revolutionary educational treatise, child isolated from society, manipulated by tutor
ID: 564
1770
ID: 579
Rousseau returns to Paris, writes Confessions justifying child abandonment as 'member of Plato's Republic'
ID: 579
1777
ID: 597
Condorcet writes Americans 'are what Rousseau wished us to become' - free from old prejudices
ID: 597
1778
ID: 601
Young Robespierre visits aging Rousseau - later implements Social Contract ideas in Revolutionary Terror
ID: 601
1782
ID: 614
Crèvecoeur's 'Letters from an American Farmer' - creates pastoral fantasy confirming Rousseauian prejudices
ID: 614
1793
ID: 649
The Terror begins - Robespierre implements Rousseau ideas through Committee of Public Safety
ID: 649