1 Enlightenment, liberty and revolution - French Revolution - OpenLearn - The Open Univ... - 8 views
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anonymous on 10 Nov 09Social distinction was evident in France and America. Something connected to a time period rather than a particular country.
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Catherine the Great of Russia, once the darling of two of those leading figures, Voltaire and Diderot, was by 1794 voicing the suspicion 'that the aim of the philosophes was to overturn all thrones, and that the Encyclopédie was written with no other end in view than to destroy all kings and all religions'