The Enlightenment

Baron d’Holbach

Thomas Hobbes

The Leviathan (1651)

John Locke

Second Treatise of Government (1690)

Denis Diderot

L’Encyclopédie

Encyclopedie: making of cannon

Encyclopedie: printing a newspaper

Salon: Mme de Geoffrion

Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)

Cunegonde, Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, Candide (“les grands coups des pied dans la derriere”)

Travels of Candide and Pangloss

“mais il fault cultiver notre jardin”

Baron de Montesquieu

The Spirit of the Laws

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Olympe de Gouges