It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchy. Today, the fortress is no more, but the square remains a ...

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 ...

“He shared the idea commonly held during the Age of Enlightenment, that the enlightened ... During this time, he expressed his horror at the instability that followed the French Revolution, according ...