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 ...

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