Beresina or the Last Days of Switzerland Re: Brock

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>Switzerland also produced Rousseau, and he dedicated the _Discourse
>>on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men_ to the
>>Republic of Geneva: <http://www.constitution.org/jjr/ineq_01.htm>.  A
>>rather fulsome praise, I must say.  Was Rousseau looking for a job in
>>Geneva?
>
>Yea, but he lived in France . . . .
>
>jks

I think he lived in Switzerland until he turned 16 or so.  Was he 
another provincial boy -- Geneva being smaller, as well as presumably 
less urbane & more Spartan, than Paris -- made good in a great 
metropolis?  I can't picture what Geneva was like in the 18th 
century....
-- 
Yoshie

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