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“No event as encompassing as the French Revolution occurs in an intellectual vacuum.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2007
  • Origins of Modern Politics

An upheaval as total as the French Revolution — one that dismantled monarchy, church privilege, and the entire legal architecture of the Ancien Régime within a few years — could not have sprung from bread prices and fiscal deficits alone.

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  • The Enlightenment as a Climate of Opinion
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