Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), French Enlightenment philosopher and educationalist. Artist: Walker

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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), French Enlightenment philosopher and educationalist. He is portrayed reaching to the light and speaking to his wife just before his death. The ideas Rousseau put forward in his most famous philosophical work, The Social Contract, were central to the French Revolution. For The European Magazine.

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