C1 · Lesson 40Culture

The Enlightenment

Les Lumières: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot and the Encyclopédie, Émilie du Châtelet and the salons, the key ideas (reason, tolerance, the separation of powers, the sovereignty of the people), how ideas circulated, and the debates about their link with the Revolution.

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