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Rousseau himself composed a very successful opera of the uncomplicated kind he recommended. Pictured is a scene from Rousseau’s Le Devin du Village (The Village Soothsayer), 1752. Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France/Archives Charmet/The Bridgeman Art Library.