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• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
  '''Rousseau, Jean-Jacques''' (1712-1778): Genevan political theorist. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the foremost political theorist of the eighteenth-century, who exerted
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• Tronchin, Jean-Robert
  '''Tronchin, Jean-Robert''' (1710-1793): Genevan magistrate and author. ...e texts, but also took the extraordinary step of ordering [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]]’s arrest should he enter the city.
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• Volume R
  '''[[Rameau, Jean Philippe]]''' '''[[Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich]]'''
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• Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri
  '''Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri''' (1737-1814). French Writer. Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was a precursor of Romanticism and author o
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• Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich
  ...e. While in college he was influenced by the writings of [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]] as well as the liberal reform movements which were sweeping Europe at the ...tantly, his works appear to have influenced the later works of John Dewey, Jean Piaget, and Maria Montessori.
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• Tronchin, Théodore
  ...ly included the Genevan magistrates [[Tronchin, François]] and [[Tronchin, Jean-Robert]]. Although Tronchin’s father wanted his son to enter the clergy, ...nd to the article, and he wrote to both [[Diderot, Denis]] and [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]] to request a retraction. Both men refused.
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• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
  '''Rousseau, Jean-Jacques''' (1712-1778): Genevan political theorist. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the foremost political theorist of the eighteenth-century, who exerted
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• Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von
  ...n-Jacques]], advocated the reform of French opera and championed [[Rameau, Jean Philippe]]’s theory of harmony, until a war of polemics arose that pitted
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• Lillo, George
  ...apprentice hero is evident in the bourgeois tragedies of [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Diderot, Denis]], and [[Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim]], all of whom prais
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• Babeuf, François Noël “Gracchus”
  ...the Revolution, Babeuf was influenced by the writings of [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]] and Abbé Mably. By the late 1780s, he advocated the redistribution of l
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• Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich
  '''Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich''' (1763-1825): German Writer. One of the most popular German novelists of his time, Jean Paul attempted in his writings to come to terms with the excesses of romant
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• Quesnay, François
  ...Farmers, and Grain. In 1757-8, Quesnay, along with [[Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques]], [[Mirabeau, Victor Riquetti, Marquis de]], and [[Mercier de la Rivière, ...[Smith, Adam]], but also generated strong critics such as [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de]], [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]] an
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• Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian von
  ...rang'' period helped popularize the beliefs and themes of [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]]. They directed the public’s attention to folk poetry, the theater of S
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• Weishaupt, Adam
  ...rsity in 1772. Inspired by the revolutionary writings of [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], Weishaupt founded the ''Illuminatenorden'' in 1776. The members of this
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• D’Argenson, René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis
  ...to offer into an idealized political system. Long before [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], who alludes to this work repeatedly in the ''Social Contract'', d’Arge D’Argenson’s brilliance was one of the few things on which both Rousseau and [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]] could agree. Today, he is reme
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• Marmontel, Jean-François
  '''Marmontel, Jean-François''' (1723-99): French Literary Theorist and Writer. ...lyrical quality of the French language against attacks by [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]] won him a place in the French Academy. He also maintained popular appeal
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• Rameau, Jean Philippe
  '''Rameau, Jean Philippe''' (1683-1764): French composer. ...ollaborate (including [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Marmontel, Jean-François]], and Louis de Cahusac.). He quickly gained favor at court, bei
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• Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de
  ...fall of the Girondins (the more moderate revolutionaries led by [[Brissot, Jacques Pierre]], and [[Vergniaud, Pierre]]). He was appointed to the Committee of ...d his left. On March 14, he had the Ultrarevolutionaries led by [[Hebert, Jacques]] arrested and executed ten days later. He viewed many of his former allies
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• Casanova, Giacomo Girolamo
  Also known as Jacques Casanova, chevalier de Seingalt, Casanova was an adventurer who authored a ...ers (among the most famous ones [[Haller, Albrecht von]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], and [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de ]]), and even the pope. In Po
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• Linnaeus, Carolus
  ...ecting philosophical and literary figures of the order of [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Goethe, Johann Wolfgang]] and [[Darwin, Erasmus]]. ...he conceived of as the aesthetic pleasure specially derivable from botany, Rousseau ironically helped to extend Linnaeus's fame. Linnaeus's own use of Latin (o
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• Staël, Germaine de
  ...ril 1766 in Paris, Germaine was raised a Protestant. Her father, [[Necker, Jacques]], was a Swiss banker and French King Louis XVI’s Minister of Finance. He ...harles Louis de Secondat, Baron de]]’s concept of law and [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]]’s ideas about the role of the passions in society and the nature of the
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• Corday, Charlotte
  ...and the Declaration of the Rights of Man. She believed that the ideals of Rousseau were close to realization and that France would see a new dawn with equalit ...Marquis de]], and Louvet—as true republican disciples of [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]] and the only force capable of withstanding the violent inclinations of [[
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• Helvétius, Claude Adrien
  ...raries such as [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]] and [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]] were unfavorable mainly because they remained midway between an arbitrary
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• Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich
  ...ann Wolfgang]]. He was drawn to philosophic figures like [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], and Shaftsbury, and was greatly influenced by his friend, and fellow phi
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• Herder, Johann Gottfried
  ...ting him to the works of figures like [[Hume, David]] and [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]]. Herder’s other mentor that would play a crucial role in his intellectu
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• Williams, Helen Maria
  ...lliams produced her only novel, ''Julia'', a reworking of [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]]'s ''Julie; ou, la nouvelle Héloise''. The novel contains the first of Wi ...d translations, most notably a translation of [[Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri]]’s ''Paul et Virginie''.
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• Hume, David
  ...[[Diderot, Denis]] and befriended [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]] arranging for Rousseau to return with him to England, but they had a falling-out and parted as ene
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• Ferguson, Adam
  ...tions an alleged natural condition of humanity favored by [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], Ferguson’s starting point was human beings as they are actually found
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• Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
  ...itics such as [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]] and [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]] for its appealing lyricism and folk-like simplicity. In contrast to the
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• La Tour, Maurice-Quentin de
  ...rs repeatedly meet with refusal until he makes the acquaintance of Jacques-Jean Spoëde, a Flemish artist who introduces him to the works of Rubens and Van ...successful portraits such as the ones of Mademoiselle de la Boissière and Jean Restout. His exceptional knowledge of color and texture bring him much suc
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• Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de
  ...squieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de]], Newton and [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]]. In 1772, Mirabeau married Emilie de Marignane, a rich heiress from Prov
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• Diderot, Denis
  ...ich precipitated a bitter feud with his erstwhile friend, [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]]. Around the same time he embarked on a 15-year affair with an unconventio ...was drafted in the 1760s), and ''D’Alembert’s Dream'' (1769); the novels ''Jacques the Fatalist'' (1774) and ''The Nun'' (1782); and the realistic psychologic
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• Cabarrus, Thérèse
  ...ed. She had read [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Diderot, Denis]] resulting in interest for the notion of liberty and e ...udet, that are still at large unlike their fellow counterparts, [[Brissot, Jacques Pierre]] and [[Vergniaud, Pierre]], who had been already arrested. Thérè
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• Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de
  .... Thinkers of nearly all political persuasions, including [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Burke, Edmund]], and [[Hume, David]] borrowed ideas from his corpus. I
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• Madame Roland
  ..., François-Marie Arouet de]], Shakespeare, Richardson and [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]]. The latter exercised great influence in her life. ...ip and epistolary exchange. In 1776, the Cannet sisters introduced her to Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière. Roland was twenty years older, grim, morose,
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• Kant, Immanuel
  ...n reason in the species as a whole. Deeply influenced by [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], Kant produced the last great statement of classical social contract theo
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