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Rousseau was the most controversial and paradoxical of the writers of the Enlightenment.
Born in Switzerland, he published important works on politics, music, and in Emile, education.
He also wrote one of the most widely read novels of the century, Julie or the New Heloise.
Although an advocate of new educational practices that emphasized the natural development of children’s abilities, Rousseau put all his own children in a foundling home because he could not support them.
In Emile, he gave most of his attention to the education of boys.
His section on the education of girls, centered on the character of Sophie, proved to be one of his most controversial writings; it underlined the importance of mothers in educating their children, but encouraged teaching girls to be entirely subordinate and dependent on their husbands.
Rousseau’s book provoked responses from women and men well into the 1800s.

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