The Enlightenment of the Philosophes

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Have the courage to use your own understanding!

Philosophes:

Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, D'Alembert, Rousseau

-thinkers, writers, publicizers

Francois Marie Arouet = Voltaire (1694-1778)

- Philosophical Letters or Letters on England (1734)

-Wit and sarcasm

-Emilie, Marquise du Chatelet

Salons and coffeehouses become more important sites of discourse than the official academies

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu = Montesquieu (1689-1755)

-Well-adjusted; happy family

-Persian Letters (1721)

-The Spirit of the Laws, 2 volumes (1748)

Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

-writer and radical

-Antoinette Champion, Angelique, Sophie Voland

-Encyclopedie (1751-1772)

-Jean Le Rond D'Alembert = D'Alembert,

major collaborator on the project
-change everything

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

-Geneva, Switzerland; Protestant

-Therese Levasseur

-First Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750)

-Second Discourse on the Origins of Inequality among Men (1755)

-Emile, or On Education (1762)

-The Social Contract (1762)