How did the Age of Enlightenment influence the French Revolution?

Answer 1

Just think of the most important writer-philosphers of that time: Rousseau and Voltaire, just to name the most prominent. Without their way of thinking and the possibility to disperse those idea via printing machines, the ideas of human rights wouldn't have been spread widely enough to influence so many people as it did.

Answer 2

people realized that the common man was equal and were not going to tolerate imperialism.

Answer 3

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