French Enlightenment

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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

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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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this entity surface form: Enlightenment
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this entity surface form: Enlightenment
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Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat movement French Enlightenment
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this entity surface form: Enlightenment
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this entity surface form: Enlightenment
Sophie de Grouchy movement French Enlightenment
this entity surface form: Enlightenment
Johan Henric Kellgren influencedBy French Enlightenment
Charles Fourier influencedBy French Enlightenment
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Diderot’s early philosophical writings movement French Enlightenment
this entity surface form: Enlightenment
Jean-François Marmontel participantIn French Enlightenment
Rite Français influencedBy French Enlightenment
De l'esprit influencedBy French Enlightenment
De l'homme associatedWith French Enlightenment
Anne-Catherine de Ligniville movement French Enlightenment
this entity surface form: Enlightenment
Anne-Catherine de Ligniville associatedWith French Enlightenment
Il Caffè influencedBy French Enlightenment
Suzanne Simonin literaryMovementContext French Enlightenment
Bust of Voltaire culturalContext French Enlightenment
Bust of Jean-Jacques Rousseau culturalContext French Enlightenment
Bust of Turgot culturalContext French Enlightenment
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