All 3 Uses of
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Guillaume Rousseau, Emperor of the Empire of Galilee, marched majestically in his robe of purple, spotted with wine, preceded by buffoons wrestling and executing military dances; surrounded by his macebearers, his pickpockets and clerks of the chamber of accounts.†
Chpt 1.2.3 *Rousseau = Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- influential French philosopher and writer who believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society (1712-1778)
- You are in the presence of three powerful sovereigns: myself, Clopin Trouillefou, King of Thunes, successor to the Grand Coësre, supreme suzerain of the Realm of Argot; Mathias Hunyadi Spicali, Duke of Egypt and of Bohemia, the old yellow fellow whom you see yonder, with a dish clout round his head; Guillaume Rousseau, Emperor of Galilee, that fat fellow who is not listening to us but caressing a wench.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- Sometimes, however, as in the affair of the assassins of Petit-Jean, the headsman of Paris, and in that of Emery Rousseau, the murderer of Jean Valleret, justice overleaped the church and passed on to the execution of its sentences; but unless by virtue of a decree of Parliament, woe to him who violated a place of asylum with armed force!†
Chpt 2.9.2
Definition:
influential French philosopher and writer who believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society and whose ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)