The Panthéon stands as a monument to the great figures of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment. Originally built as a ...

The ideas of this Scottish Enlightenment are exported to the colonies and fan the flames of revolution against the evils and cruelties of Empire.

the intellectual origins of the French Revolution; intellectual encounters with the New World; the concept of a Counter-Enlightenment; and the move from a private to a public sphere of cultural ...

In The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire ... but also grounds her arguments at the beginning of the French Revolution in her last chapter. In doing so, she examines the ...

We now associate these thinkers with the Age of Enlightenment, a period of history that led to the French Revolution and the American War of Independence. Video by Izabela Cardoso & Fernando ...