Rousseau Had a Sense of Humor

Yes, it's true. And the English were the butt of his jokes at least one time:

In his Essai sur l'origine des langues (Essay on the Origin of Languages), he says:

Pour concevoir les repas des anciens on n'a qu'à voir encore aujourdui ceux des Sauvages ; j'ai failli dire ceux des Anglois.

In order to conceive of the meals of the ancients, one has but to see still today those of Savages; I almost said those of Englishmen.

I won't lie, I laughed out loud.

Rousseau was funny.... Whodathunkit?!