Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer during
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the 18th century.
He was one of the philosophes of the Age of Enlightenment along with his critic, Voltaire, and their ideas influenced the French Revolution.[1] At one point, he also lived in the town of Saint-Denis.[2]
The Saint-Marcel district of Paris was made famous thanks to Rousseau's description of the area: "I had imagined a city of a most imposing appearance, as beautiful as it was large, where one could see only splendid streets and palaces of marble or gold. As I entered the Faubourg Saint-Marceau, I saw nothing but dirty, stinking little streets, wretched black houses, a general air of squalor and poverty, beggars, carters, menders of clothes, sellers of herb-drinks and old hats. All this so affected me at the outset that all the real magnificence I have since seen in Paris has not been sufficient to efface my first impression, and I have always retained a secret aversion against living in the capital."[1]
Rousseau died in 1778. That year, the sculptor Marie Tussaud made her first wax figures of Rousseau and Voltaire.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Assassin's Creed: Unity
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity - Dead Kings