Jean-Jacques Rousseau, on imagination:

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Born on this day – Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Writer

Composer

June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778

Credits:

Music:

Avril – aire a poesía de Rémy Belleau; Chansons de Bataille (1753); Daphnis et Chloé; Le Devin du village (1752); Le Printemps de Vivaldi (1775); Les Consolations des Misères de Ma Vie (1781); Les Fetes de Remire (1745); Les Muses galantes (1743); Pygmalion (1762/1770); Que le jour me dure!; Salve Regina (1752); Symphonie à Cors de Chasse (1751).

Writing:

Dissertation sur la musique moderne (1743); Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (Discours sur les sciences et les arts) (1750); Narcissus, or The Self-Admirer: A Comedy (1752); Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men (Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes) (1754); Letter on French Music (1753); Letter to M. D’Alembert on Spectacles (1758); Julie; or, The New Heloise (Julie ou la nouvelle Héloïse) (1761); Emile or On Education (Émile ou de l’éducation) (1762); Four Letters to M. de Malesherbes (1762); Letters Written from the Mountain (1764); Dictionary of Music (1767); Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1770); Letters on the Elements of Botany; Essay on the Origin of Languages (1781); Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques (1782); Reveries of the Solitary Walker (1782).

Movies and television:

4 Days in France (2016); Biography of the Millennium: 100 People - 1000 Years (1999); Joachim Gatti, variation de lumière (2009); Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976); Kuolema savolaiseen tapaan (1983); La faute à Rousseau (2012); Le devin du village (1962); Le gai savoir (1969); Portrait souvenir (1962); Sweet Brother (2025); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).