|This directly inspired [[Maximilian Robespierre]] and [[Louis de Saint-Just]]'s [[Reign of Terror]] during the French Revolution, as well as to some extent the [[September Massacres]] by [[Jean-Paul Marat]] shortly beforehand. Plus, it laid the groundwork for totalitarian ideas such as Marxism. It was so notoriously unchristian that, alongside ''Emile, or On Education'', it resulted in not only the book being banned in France as well as Geneva until after the author's death, but also in Rousseau being forced to flee the country and live in exile until returning in 1763 incognito within southeast France. He officially returned in 1770 when the French government lifted his banishment from Paris under the condition that he not publish any more books.<ref>http://www.philosophybasics.com/philosophers_rousseau.html</ref> | |This directly inspired [[Maximilian Robespierre]] and [[Louis de Saint-Just]]'s [[Reign of Terror]] during the French Revolution, as well as to some extent the [[September Massacres]] by [[Jean-Paul Marat]] shortly beforehand. Plus, it laid the groundwork for totalitarian ideas such as Marxism. It was so notoriously unchristian that, alongside ''Emile, or On Education'', it resulted in not only the book being banned in France as well as Geneva until after the author's death, but also in Rousseau being forced to flee the country and live in exile until returning in 1763 incognito within southeast France. He officially returned in 1770 when the French government lifted his banishment from Paris under the condition that he not publish any more books.<ref>http://www.philosophybasics.com/philosophers_rousseau.html</ref> |