Rousseau, Jean Baptiste, French lyric poet, born in Paris, the son of a shoemaker; gave offence by certain lampoons ascribed to him which to the last he protested were forgeries, and was banished; his satires were certainly superior to his lyrics, which were cold and formal; died at Brussels in exile (1670‒1741).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rous, Francis * Rousseau, Jean Jacques