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1778

Rousseau Dies at Ermenonville

July 2, 1778

Six weeks after Voltaire - his great rival he had never met - Rousseau died suddenly at the country estate of the Marquis de Girardin. He was buried on an island in a willow grove. Young pilgrims came to weep. The Revolution would move him to the Pantheon and lay him opposite Voltaire.

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Before: 1776: Bentham's Fragment on Government
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.