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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 exerted
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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.
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  • '''[[Rameau, Jean Philippe]]''' '''[[Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich]]'''
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  • '''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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  • ...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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  • ...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''' (1712-1778): Genevan political theorist. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the foremost political theorist of the eighteenth-century, who exerted
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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''' (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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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''' (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''' (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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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