French Enlightenment

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historical period intellectual movement philosophical movement

The French Enlightenment was an 18th-century intellectual movement in France characterized by figures like Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot, who championed reason, secularism, and political and social reform, laying ideological foundations for the French Revolution.

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Label	Occurrences
French Enlightenment canonical	62
Enlightenment	19
Enlightenment-era France	1
French Enlightenment thinkers	1

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical period ⓘ intellectual movement ⓘ philosophical movement ⓘ
aimedAt	reform of education ⓘ reform of legal system ⓘ reform of political institutions ⓘ reform of religious institutions ⓘ
coreValue	critique of absolute monarchy ⓘ critique of religious authority ⓘ individual liberty ⓘ progress ⓘ rationalism ⓘ reason ⓘ secularism ⓘ social reform ⓘ tolerance ⓘ
country	France ⓘ
field	economics ⓘ literature ⓘ philosophy ⓘ political theory ⓘ religious criticism ⓘ science ⓘ
hasConcept	freedom of expression ⓘ general will ⓘ natural rights ⓘ popular sovereignty ⓘ religious toleration ⓘ separation of powers ⓘ social contract ⓘ
hasMainProponent	Baron d'Holbach ⓘ surface form: Baron d’Holbach Marquis de Condorcet ⓘ surface form: Condorcet Denis Diderot ⓘ Helvétius ⓘ Jean d’Alembert ⓘ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ⓘ Montesquieu ⓘ Pierre Bayle ⓘ Voltaire ⓘ Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ⓘ
hasWork	Candide ⓘ Encyclopédie ⓘ Letters on the English ⓘ surface form: Letters Concerning the English Nation The Social Contract ⓘ The Spirit of the Laws ⓘ Emile, or On Education ⓘ surface form: Émile, or On Education
influenced	French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ⓘ surface form: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen French Revolution ⓘ human rights discourse ⓘ modern liberalism ⓘ republicanism in France ⓘ secularism in France ⓘ
influencedBy	British Enlightenment ⓘ surface form: English Enlightenment Isaac Newton ⓘ John Locke ⓘ René Descartes ⓘ Scientific Revolution ⓘ
language	French ⓘ
location	Paris ⓘ
partOf	Age of Enlightenment ⓘ
startTime	18th century ⓘ
usedMedium	literary satire ⓘ pamphlets ⓘ philosophical treatises ⓘ salons ⓘ

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Scottish Enlightenment → influenced → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Denis Diderot → movement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

American Enlightenment → influencedBy → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Frederick II of Prussia → influencedBy → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Baron d'Holbach → movement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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Pasquale Paoli → movement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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Lettres philosophiques → movement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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Traité sur la tolérance → movement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Micromégas → literaryMovement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Marquise du Châtelet → movement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

subject surface form: Émilie du Châtelet

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Laurent Durand → associatedWith → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Deutsche Aufklärung → influencedBy → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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de Secondat → associatedWith → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient → historicalContext → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Supplément au voyage de Bougainville → philosophicalMovement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Montagne Sainte-Geneviève → associatedWith → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Le Neveu de Rameau → literaryMovement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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Le Rêve de d’Alembert → movement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Cirey, Kingdom of France → associatedWith → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Château de Voltaire → associatedWith → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Accademia dei Pugni → inspiredBy → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Le Bon Sens → associatedMovement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

La Contagion sacrée → movement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Christianisme dévoilé → influencedBy → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze → era → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Milanese Enlightenment → influencedBy → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Anders Johan von Höpken → influencedBy → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Marquis de Sade → movement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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The Virtuous Athenian → culturalContext → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais → movement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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Discours sur les différentes figures des astres → associatedWith → French Enlightenment ⓘ

François Quesnay → influencedBy → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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Discours préliminaire de l’Encyclopédie → movement → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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Discours préliminaire de l’Encyclopédie → intellectualTradition → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Collège du Plessis → associatedWith → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains → associatedWith → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Éloge de Gournay → philosophicalTradition → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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David printing house → associatedWith → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Pangloss → literaryPeriod → French Enlightenment ⓘ

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Lettres anglaises → hasInfluenceOn → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Letters on the English → influenced → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Translation of Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica into French → associatedWith → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Pierre Gassendi → influenced → French Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: French Enlightenment thinkers

La Jeunesse → influencedBy → French Enlightenment ⓘ

Mikhail Speransky → influencedBy → French Enlightenment ⓘ