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Jun 10, 2024 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) was a Swiss philosopher, political theorist and writer whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of both the French Revolution and the Romantic generation. Despite being the ‘least academic of modern philosophers,’ in numerous ways he was the ‘most influential.’.
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Jun 28, 2024 · He had in the meantime acquired a mistress, an illiterate laundry maid named Thérèse Levasseur. To the surprise of his friends, he took her with him to Geneva, presenting her as a nurse. Although her presence caused some murmurings, Rousseau was readmitted easily to the Calvinist communion, his literary fame having made him very welcome to a ...
Jun 28, 2024 · Believing that Thérèse was the only person he could rely on, he finally married her in 1768, when he was 56 years old. The last decade. In the remaining 10 years of his life Rousseau produced primarily autobiographical writings, mostly intended to justify himself against the accusations of his adversaries.
3 days ago · Mother Teresa: A Quarter-Century Later, It’s Like She Never Left. Clockwise from left: Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary with the Missionaries of Charity, who lived most of her life in India, holds a prayer candle on Aug. 10, 1994. Mother Teresa is shown attending the 1994 synod as an invited auditor.
2 days ago · Yearlong jubilee now underway to remember the spiritual legacy of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, a Doctor of the Church who offered believers a “little way” towards holiness. By Dominique Greiner ...
1 day ago · There are only four female Doctors of the Church: Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Catherine of Siena, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, and Saint Hildegard of Bingen. Pope Paul VI declared Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint Catherine of Siena the first female Doctors of the Church in 1970.
Jun 11, 2024 · "Levasseur" published on by null. Family of Canadian woodcarvers of French origin active in Quebec in the 17th and 18th centuries. Their work included a good deal of interior decoration of churches and other buildings. ...
