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Who among the following referred Rousseau as 'the insane Socrates of the National Assembly'?

Edmund Burke described Jean-Jacques Rousseau as 'the insane Socrates of the National Assembly' in his Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791), criticising the…

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Who among the following referred Rousseau as 'the insane Socrates of the National Assembly'?

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Edmund Burke described Jean-Jacques Rousseau as 'the insane Socrates of the National Assembly' in his Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791), criticising the French revolutionaries' veneration of Rousseau.

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