Under the protection of de Warens, he converted to Catholicism.
He then met Françoise-Louise de Warens, a French Catholic baroness twelve years his elder who would later become his lover. Rousseau left Geneva on March 14, 1728, after several years of apprenticeship to a notary and then an engraver. According to Rousseau's own account in Book I of the Confessions, his experience of corporal punishment at the hands of the pastor's sister was important in the formation of his sexuality. After his father's departure, Rousseau was placed in the care of a pastor at Bossey, near Geneva. His childhood education consisted solely of reading Plutarch's Lives and Calvinist sermons. His mother, Suzanne Bernard Rousseau, died nine days after his birth due to complications from childbirth, and his father Isaac, a failed watchmaker, abandoned him in 1722 to avoid imprisonment for fighting a duel. Rousseau was born in Geneva (then an independent republic, today part of Switzerland) and throughout his life described himself as a citizen of Geneva. His novel Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse was one of the best-selling fictional works of the eighteenth century and was important to the development of romanticism. With his Confessions and other writings, he practically invented modern autobiography and encouraged a new focus on the building of subjectivity that would bear fruit in the work of thinkers as diverse as Hegel and Freud. Rousseau also made important contributions to music both as a theorist and as a composer. Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( J– July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the Romantic movement Political philosophy, music, education, literature, autobiography
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