All 19 Uses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
in
Les Miserables
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- Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau between Enjolras and Courfeyrac.†
Chpt 3.4 *Jean-Jacques Rousseau = influential French philosopher and writer who believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society (1712-1778)
- This is the Rue Platriere, now called Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty years ago.†
Chpt 3.4
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- In order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it is necessary that Danton should dare it.†
Chpt 3.1
- At six o'clock in the evening he descended the Rue Saint-Jacques to dine at Rousseau's, opposite Basset's, the stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins.†
Chpt 3.5
- When he paid at the desk where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a smile.†
Chpt 3.5
- When he paid at the desk where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a smile.†
Chpt 3.5
- This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant.†
Chpt 3.5
- The proprietor had a fine nickname: he was called Rousseau the Aquatic.†
Chpt 3.5
- They went off to Rousseau's and spent six francs.†
Chpt 3.6
- Thenardier, masterful and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques Rousseau did even better!"†
Chpt 4.6
- The encyclopedists, Diderot at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,—these are four sacred legions.†
Chpt 4.7
- Diderot towards the beautiful, Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards the just.†
Chpt 4.7 *
- The destruction of machines, the pillage of warehouses, the breaking of rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,—that is revolt.†
Chpt 4.10
- He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were firing, and sang: "On est laid a Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute a Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bete a Palaiseau, And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute a Rousseau."†
Chpt 5.1
- Tis the fault of Rousseau.†
Chpt 5.1
- Gavroche sang: "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute a Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, I'm a little bird, C'est la faute a Rousseau."†
Chpt 5.1
- Tis the fault of Rousseau.†
Chpt 5.1
- "Joie est mon caractere, "Joy is my character, C'est la faute a Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau, Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute a Rousseau."†
Chpt 5.1
- Tis the fault of Rousseau.†
Chpt 5.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau) 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)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, Rousseau can refer to anyone with that name.