“Let's go dance under the elms:
Step lively, young lassies.
Let's go dance under the elms:
Gallants, take up your pipes.”

—  Jean Jacques Rousseau , Le devin du village

Le devin du village (1752)

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Genevan philosopher 1712–1778

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