Seine-et-Marne in the Enlightenment

The atlas holds 3 people and 5 moments here, from 1700 to 1800. The most recorded lives are Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu and Joséphine de Beauharnais.

Notable people

1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

   from 1756 to 1778

   3 moments here

   Genevan philosopher, writer, composer, and a major figure of the European Enlightenment. Rousseau’s documented movements ranged across Geneva, Savoy,…

2. Joséphine de Beauharnais

   in 1800

   1 moment here

   Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, known as Joséphine, was Napoleon Bonaparte’s first wife and Empress of the French from 1804 until the…

3. Montesquieu

   in 1700

   1 moment here

   Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, was a French jurist, historian, and political philosopher.…

Moments

1. 1700 Student at the College of Juilly Montesquieu
2. 1756 Residence at the Hermitage Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3. 1778 Move to Ermenonville Jean-Jacques Rousseau
4. 1778 Death at Ermenonville Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5. 1800 Visit to Mortefontaine Joséphine de Beauharnais

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