How did the ideas of the enlightment cause french revolution?
Very briefly–I am not doing your homework for you . . . The Enlightenment idealized the individual, raising him to a level of importance unprecedented in human history. Consequently, he was not to serve government; government was to represent and serve him. The monarchy assigned importance to noble rank. People with no noble “blood” existed to serve those who did. The individual, the French commoner, now believing that he counted for something, united in a decision to overthrow a government that did not represent him. Sadly, taking over a government is one thing; governing is quite another. The vacuum created by the overthrow of the monarchy drew in those who would institute the Terror.
