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This treaty ended the Swiss War which created peace.
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He was born in Geneva.
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When he met Madame de Warens, he worked for her and she converted him to Catholic. They later married.
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Horatio Gates was an important American revolutionary general.
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He cheated on his wife Madame de Warens with Madame de Larange, which caused him to move away.
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He moved back to Paris to work on the Encyclopedia.
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Charles was the first person not born of the House of Habsburg to become emperor in over three centuries.
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It was Rousseau's first successful published philosophical work, and it was the first expression of his influential views about nature vs. society, to which he would dedicate the rest of his intellectual life. This work is considered one of his most important works.
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The situation has led to confrontation inside Tibet and to large scale Chinese propaganda efforts internationally.
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It was written 1754 in response to a prize competition of the Academy of Dijon and published in 1755.
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A novel about a medieval story of passion and Christian renunciation.
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He left France so he wouldn't be arrested and he moved to Neuchatel. He considered Emile to be the “best and most important of all my writings”. The Social Contract was the most important of all his writings.
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Maugerville was important for Indian trade.
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He wanted to become a true citizen of his hometown.
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The Siege of Fort Detroit was an ultimately unsuccessful attempt by North American Indians to capture Fort Detroit during Pontiac's Rebellion.
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While taking a morning walk on the estate of the marquis René Louis de Girardin at Ermenonville (28 miles northeast of Paris), Rousseau suffered a hemorrhage and died, aged 66.