1. Jean Jacques
Rousseau
By Ciera Johnson

2. My Early life
• I was Born on June 28, 1712 in Geneva, Switzerland
as the second child of Suzanne Bernard and Isaac
Rousseau. Nine days later my mother died.
• At the age of ten, my father fled Geneva to avoid
imprisonment. Rousseau stays in Geneva in the
charge of his mother's relations.
• I spent a short time training to be a pastor, before
leaving to have my own career in music and arts.

3. ...Continued
• Soon after I became a tutor, and moved to Lyon. This
my first exposure to the French Enlightenment.
• In 1743 I meet Therese le Vasseur. We had five
children but I didn’t marry until later in my life.
• I came in contact with Denis Diderot as well as
d’Alembert. I shared with him my new system of
musical notation, and they helped write the
Encyclopédie.

4. Social Contract
• I wrote this book in 1762. Its
about how I think is best to run a
social community.
• My book portrays the relationship
between people and their
governments. How the
government should work for the
people
• It helped inspire political reforms
and revolutions.
• I also discuss that Monarchs don’t
have the right to “divinely rule”.

5. My Writings...
• I wrote a number of books, of
which including operas.
• Some of my works are:
Discourse on the Sciences
and the Arts, the Village
Soothsayer, Heloise,
Confessions and The Social
Contract.

6. Ideas
• I believed that the government was a very tricky subject.
Governments have to be leveled out.
• I believed that governments success can be measured by
the extent to which its population thrives, meaning that
the government has to work for the people and it has to
adapt to for the people.
• I also believe that understanding our connection to nature
is important to a good education.

7. Who opposed him?
• Many people were opposed to my writings, and
my opinions such as the church, and rulers.
• In 1762, I was driven into exile to Switzerland and
England for opposing the church.
• My book, Social Contract opposed the Catholic
Church's and it was in the “index of forbidden
books” and an order went out for my arrest.
• 1767 I fled from England, returning to France
where he was still wanted by the law.
• The next year I died at the age of sixty-six.

8. Notes
• I give to the government in order to maintain order
and protection of rights.

9. THE END!!