Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau stayed for a month in Yverdon-les-Bains, between June and July 1762, in the family house of the banker Daniel Roguin.
In his "Confessions", he wrote about his experience as follows: « My visit to Yverdon suited me so well that I resolved to take up my abode in the town, at the urging of M. Roguin and all his family".
However, Rousseau was unable to carry out his plan. Due to the opposition of the authorities at Bern, who were hostile to the ideas he had expressed in two books published earlier that year, the "Contrat social" and "Emile", he was forced to flee suddenly from the town.
Rousseau remained deeply appreciative of the welcome extended to him at Yverdon-les-Bains. In 1764, as a token of his gratitude, he donated a portrait of himself and ten volumes of his writings to the town of Yverdon-les-Bains and to its library.
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