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Quotation from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I have a feeling that some day that little island will astonish Europe”
The Social Contract, Book II, Chapter X, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)
Rousseau names Corsica, then fighting Genoa under Pasquale Paoli, as the one European people still fit to receive laws; Napoleon was born there seven years later.
Citation: "I have a feeling that some day that little island will astonish Europe" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book II, Chapter X, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id the-social-contract-q9)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
