Voltaire - Snap Master!

The French poet J.B. Rousseau wrote an Ode to Posterity. Voltaire was not of the opinion that the poem merited survival, and jokingly remarked: "This poem will not reach its destination."

A Klangwitz

A young man was introduced into a Paris salon, who was a relative of the great Jean-Jacques Rousseau and bore his name. Moreover he was red-haired. But he behaved so awkwardly that the hostess remarked critically to the gentleman who had introduced him: "Vous m'avez fait connaître un jenne homme roux et sot, mais non pas un Rousseau."