AP European History – Mr. O’Donnell
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778)
Biography of Rousseau
The
Rousseau Time Line
1712 June 12, born in
1722 His father is exiled from
1724 Apprenticed to his uncle a lawyer who
finds him incapable and sends him back.
1725 Apprenticed to an engraver.
1728 Runs away from his apprenticeship and
wanders about
1731 Lives in
1733 Madam de Warens
becomes his mistress.
1738 Becomes ill and goes to
1740 Tutors at
1741 Goes to
1742 Unsuccessfully presents a new system
of music to the
1743 Meets Therese le Vasseur who will become his mistress, bearing him five
children, and whom he marries near the end of his life.
1745 Returns to
1751 Publishes Discourse on the
Sciences and the Arts.
1752 Production of his
opera the Village Soothsayer.
1754 Returns to
1755 Publishes Discourse on Inequality.
1756 April moves back to
1757 Leaves Montmorency
for nearby Montlouis after a quarrel with Diderot.
1758 Publication of Letter
to d'Alembert and final rupture in his relations
with Diderot.
1761 Publication of Heloise.
1762 Publication of Emile
and The Social Contract which forces him to leave
1763 Renounces
citizenship of
1765 Driven from Motiers to the
1766 David Hume
offers him asylum in
1767 Returns to live in various provinces
of
1770 Returns to live in
1778 Moves to Ermenonville
where he dies suddenly on July 2.
Rousseau Time Line Sources
Bibliography
- Heloise
- Emile
- Social Contract
- First and Second Discourses
- Dialogues
- Confessions
- Reveries of a Solitary