Despite being a founder of both the United states and the French Republic ... and the vibrant intellectual exhilaration of the Age of Enlightenment. Craig Nelson joins Larry Mantle for a ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the hub of the Enlightenment. But the country was to be transformed and engulfed ...

The last years of Rhigas illustrate the impact of the French Revolution on the Enlightenment revolutionaries in Greece. His declaration of the Rights of Man and his interest in the rise of ...

Musée National du Château de Fontainebleau, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain The French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte arguably did more for the Revolution and the Enlightenment than Robespierre ...

Louis-Sébastien Mercier, dramatist and author of the early science fiction novel L’an 2440, claimed that only a small ...

As these Enlightenment ideals spread throughout the colonies, so did unrest, driven by a series of events and British actions. The French and ... leading up to the Revolution occurred, commonly ...

Inspired by Enlightenment principles and emboldened ... and the event is now remembered as one of the pivotal events of the French Revolution. Over the 10 years of upheaval that followed, France ...

and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. By placing so much stress on the failures and falterings of the Enlightenment, the author seems to be viewing it through the lens of current ...

which historians have linked to the Enlightenment, with its focus on this world’s concerns and increased visibility of the aged in culture and society. But the French Revolution and Napoleonic ...