What is "rousseau"

Rousseau most commonly refers to 18th-century Swiss author and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and it may also refer to:

• Rousseau (surname), notable persons with the surname Rousseau
• Rousseau (electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada
• Rousseau, Kentucky
• Rousseau Institute, private school in Geneva, Switzerland
• Rousseau Range, in Alaska, U.S.
• Rousseau Peak, in Antarctica
• Lake Rousseau, in Florida, U.S.
• Rousseau Metal inc., a Quebec company founded by André Rousseau
• Rousseau SA, a French manufacturer of agricultural machinery which, in 1962, invented the rotary mower
• An alternative name for French wine made from the grape Chardonnay

Rousseau is a provincial electoral district in the Lanaudière and Laurentides regions of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It includes Saint-Lin–Laurentides and various other municipalities.

It was created for the 1981 election from parts of the Prévost, Joliette-Montcalm and L'Assomption electoral districts.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it gained Chertsey and Saint-Hippolyte from Bertrand, but lost L'Épiphanie (city), L'Épiphanie (parish), and the part of the city of L'Assomption that it formerly had to the L'Assomption electoral district.

It was named after French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Rousseau is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Arts

• Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist) (born 1932), American saxophonist
• Frederick Rousseau (born 1958), French musician
• Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), French naive painter, also known as Douanier Rousseau
• Jacques Rousseau (painter) (1630–1693), French trompe l'œil painter
• Jean Rousseau (1644–1699), French musician and author
• Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1671–1741), French poet
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Genevan author and philosopher
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (author-filmmaker), Belgian film director
• Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (1870–1956), French painter and art theorist
• Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere (1747–1820), French decorative painter
• Serge Rousseau (1930–2007), French film and television actor
• Stéphane Rousseau, Canadian actor
• Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), French painter

Science

• Cecil C. Rousseau, mathematician
• Denis Rousseau, American scientist
• Frederic Rousseau, Belgian molecular biologist

Sports

• Bobby Rousseau (born 1940), Canadian ice hockey player
• Eugène Rousseau (chess player) (c.1810–1870), French chess player
• Florian Rousseau (born 1974), French cyclist
• Maurice Rousseau (born 1906), French Olympic gymnast
• Jacques Rousseau (athlete) (born 1951), French track and field athlete
• Vincent Rousseau (born 1962), Belgian runner
• Yves Rousseau, French aviator

Politics and military

• André Rousseau (1911–2002), Quebec politician and businessman
• Lovell Rousseau (1818–1869), American general
• René Waldeck-Rousseau (1846–1904), French statesman
• Roger Rousseau (1921–1986), Canadian ambassador

Other fields

• Domaine Armand Rousseau, wine producer in Burgundy, France
• Samuel Rousseau (1763–1820), British scholar

• Rousseau Owen Crump (1843–1901), American politician and businessman
• Rousseau H. Flower (1913–1988), American paleontologist
• Victor Rousseau Emanuel (1879–1960), British writer

• Danielle Rousseau, character on the American TV show Lost
• Alexandra Rousseau, her daughter