WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is LEAST likely to support the Enlightenment ideas during French Rev.
A
Clergy
B
bourgoursie
C
peasants
D
Jacobins
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Émigré priests and bishops preached against the Revolution from abroad, while the refractories that remained became a focal point for broader resentment of the Revolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -Specifically, the writings of John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Baron de Montesquieu greatly influenced the revolutionaries in France.

Detailed explanation-3: -Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot were the principal French philosophes of the Enlightenment.

Detailed explanation-4: -Who were the Important Philosophers from the French Revolution? Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Diderot were some of the most influential philosophers of the French Revolution. They inspired the masses and expressed their revolutionary ideas in texts such as ‘In the Spirit of Laws’ by Montesquieu.

Detailed explanation-5: -One revolutionary priest who had established his reputation in Paris before Gobel was elected bishop there was Claude Fauchet. Right in the middle of the violent storming of the Bastille, Fauchet, the churchman closest to the men who fought and died there, was at the center of Parisian political and religious life.

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