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
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,…
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.…
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…
Moments
- 1700 Student at the College of Juilly Montesquieu
- 1756 Residence at the Hermitage Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 1778 Move to Ermenonville Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 1778 Death at Ermenonville Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 1800 Visit to Mortefontaine Joséphine de Beauharnais