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- '''Rousseau, Jean-Jacques''' (1712-1778): Genevan political theorist. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the foremost political theorist of the eighteenth-century, who exerted7 KB (1,126 words) - 10:36, 28 March 2013
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- '''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.2 KB (325 words) - 21:16, 26 January 2015
- '''[[Rameau, Jean Philippe]]''' '''[[Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich]]'''613 bytes (88 words) - 22:23, 21 January 2023
- '''Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri''' (1737-1814). French Writer. Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was a precursor of Romanticism and author o2 KB (256 words) - 12:23, 19 April 2009
- ...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.2 KB (284 words) - 21:01, 10 April 2008
- ...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.4 KB (681 words) - 11:16, 25 December 2018
- '''Rousseau, Jean-Jacques''' (1712-1778): Genevan political theorist. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the foremost political theorist of the eighteenth-century, who exerted7 KB (1,126 words) - 10:36, 28 March 2013
- ...n-Jacques]], advocated the reform of French opera and championed [[Rameau, Jean Philippe]]’s theory of harmony, until a war of polemics arose that pitted2 KB (302 words) - 09:03, 17 June 2017
- ...apprentice hero is evident in the bourgeois tragedies of [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Diderot, Denis]], and [[Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim]], all of whom prais2 KB (255 words) - 22:29, 31 January 2008
- ...the Revolution, Babeuf was influenced by the writings of [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]] and Abbé Mably. By the late 1780s, he advocated the redistribution of l2 KB (280 words) - 20:41, 2 April 2008
- '''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 romant4 KB (540 words) - 16:52, 29 March 2013
- ...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]] an3 KB (381 words) - 11:09, 28 March 2013
- ...rang'' period helped popularize the beliefs and themes of [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]]. They directed the public’s attention to folk poetry, the theater of S2 KB (257 words) - 18:59, 13 April 2008
- ...rsity in 1772. Inspired by the revolutionary writings of [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], Weishaupt founded the ''Illuminatenorden'' in 1776. The members of this2 KB (267 words) - 21:32, 3 April 2008
- ...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 reme3 KB (515 words) - 11:26, 3 April 2008
- '''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 appeal3 KB (535 words) - 11:02, 28 March 2013
- '''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, bei6 KB (883 words) - 16:47, 22 May 2008
- ...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 allies4 KB (703 words) - 15:40, 25 December 2018
- 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 Po3 KB (444 words) - 11:35, 1 January 2013
- ...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 (o5 KB (752 words) - 22:29, 31 January 2008
- ...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 the4 KB (536 words) - 12:34, 19 April 2009