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Later Years

  • In the spring of 1762, The Social contract was published under great risks. Selling was forbidden in France, but it was somehow sold there too. This led to a writ to Rousseau's arrest, however, he was able to leave France.

  • He also couldn't go back to Geneva because both books were banned there too. 

  • After, he moved around a lot (Scotland, Paris)

  • In 1770, he received assurance that he would not be harassed in Paris. 

  • In Paris, he started writing the Projet de Constitution pour la corse, which he was never able to finish.

  • On June 2, 1778, he suddenly died of unknown causes. He is buried in Ermenon-Ville 

  • Today, sociologists and ethnologists refer to him as an "Apologist of Nature"
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