Your follower count is how many years the time machine is taking you back, where are you going?
@robespapier tell him he ends up getting buried with Rousseau in the Pantheon, together forever ❤
That would be hilarious since this Zozo would assume you mean Jean-Baptiste, he’d watch him die and think he won. Years later he finally quarrels with Jean-Jacques and begins to realize.
JJ Rousseau was born in 1712 so at this point he’d be 14 years old (Voltaire would be 30) and Voltaire wouldn’t even know he exists. He’d definitely assume JB Rousseau, especially since he was one of the most well-known writers at that time. They might have even still been on reasonably good terms in 1724, I don’t remember exactly when their relationship went sour.
Fun fact! There is also a third less known Rousseau Voltaire pissed off at some point. And we know that cause JJ made a joke about it in a letter.
Was it the guy who trashed his play, or something like that?
Yeah, one story involves something going down in a theatre and given that Voltaire had an ego the size of a planet…possible lol. Though iirc another theory says it was a printer named Pierre Rousseau, which is imo equally plausible.
Yeah the one I remember the most is the theater incident, probably because it’s the funniest. But yeah, there’s also mentions of Pierre Rousseau the printer
So…it could be entirely possible that Voltaire mortally pissed off FOUR Rousseaus
