ROUSSEAU

Real name: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nationality: Genevan 

Born: Geneva,1712

Died: Ermenonville

Profession: Writer, philosopher and composer

Important publications: A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, Julie, Emilius and Sophia, The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Interesting facts: Rousseau became the lover of a seamstress. The couple had a son which Rousseau abandoned, first saying he wasn't rich enough, but later confessing that he was scared because he didn't want his son to be entrusted ''to a family ill brought up''