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Clément
February 8, 2024
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The famous Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived in this house from 1732 to 1746.
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November 13, 2024
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Rousseau spent five happy years here, which were very important for his almost entirely self-taught education. He read, made music, experimented and began to write. The hostess also introduced the initially reluctant man to the art of love, but in addition to Rousseau, he had another lover, Claude Anet, who was employed by her as a factotum.[12] In 1735, Madame de Warens leased the Les Charmettes estate outside the gates of Chambéry. For the next three years, this place embodied for Rousseau the "ideal of an orderly and happy life
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