The Académie de Dijon was founded by Hector-Bernard Pouffier, the most senior member of the Parlement de Bourgogne, in 1725. It received royal lettres patentes in 1740. In 1775, it became the "Académi
Façade of the Académie (2012)
Discourse on Inequality
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Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, also commonly known as The Second Discourse, is a 1755 treatise by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, on the topic of social inequality and i
Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon
…Rousseau won the prize by arguing in the negative, in his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences. In 1754, he again competed for the prize with his Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, but did not win the prize that year. The Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon still exists, and still offers the prize…
Frontispiece and title page of an edition of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (1754), published by Marc-Michel Rey in 1755 in Holland.