Rousseau (17 12 ~ 1778) was a great French enlightenment thinker in the18th century. His works on political democracy became the theoretical guide of radical jacobins in the French Revolution. But his achievements are far more than that. The ideological and artistic principles he expressed in some literary works have been continuously developed in later generations. Rousseau's great-grandfather was a French Protestant and came to Switzerland in the middle of16th century to escape religious persecution. Rousseau was born in a watchmaker's family in Geneva. He was born without a mother, but with the encouragement of his father, he read many biographies of celebrities in ancient Greek and Roman literature. /kloc-at the age of 0/0, he was sent to Pastor Langmoxier and learned Latin within two years. From 13 to 15, he was an apprentice in a tyrannical sculptor's shop and suffered a lot. Two years later, he finally left his job and went to France to start a long-term wandering life. Here, de? Mrs. Valentine is not only the first harbor of his wandering life, but also the first woman he loves in his rich and slightly morbid love life. Here, Rousseau lived a romantic and stable life for nearly 10 years. 1749 Rousseau's essay "On Science and Art" won the prize. Although this made him famous at one fell swoop, it also gradually showed the differences and differences between him and other enlighteners in their ideological positions. Later, he gradually broke with encyclopedia. Spending several years near the French forest in Montmorency was a fruitful stage in his literary and artistic creation career, and three of his four masterpieces, New Eloise, On Civil Agreement, Emile and Confessions, came out at this time. Because Emile angered the authorities and the encyclopedia at the same time, Rousseau could not escape to Switzerland and other places, and finally returned to France. In his later years, he lived alone in Paris, and the book Confessions was completed at this time. 1778, Rousseau died in the manor of a marquis. After the French bourgeois revolution, his body was moved to the Pantheon in Paris and was buried in a grand ceremony in 1794.