Use your readings from Voltaire, Kant,Tocqueville, the Declaration of the Rights of Manand/or Woman as the basis for an essay which answers this question: Did Enlightenment thinking provoke the French Revolution?

.5 pages (double-spaced) or c. 2000 words.Use your readings from Voltaire, Kant,Tocqueville, the Declaration of the Rights of Manand/or Woman as the basis for an essay which answers this question: Did Enlightenment thinking provoke the French Revolution?

 

Sources: Kant: What Is Enlightenment, Voltaire: Candide, John Merriman: A History of Modern Europe, Third Edition: From the Renaissance to the Present(New York, 2009, Habermas: “The Public Sphere”, Tocqueville: “The Old Regime and the French Revolution,” Books I and III, Assemblée Nationale: “Declaration of the Rights of Man,”; de Gouges, “Declaration of the Rights of Woman

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