The French Revolution

Along with the economy the socio-political landscape of Europe was undergoing unprecedented changes. In this context, the causal force was Enlightenment—a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that led to revolutionary developments in art, philosophy and politics. Enlightenment was an attack on Christiandom and was integrally related with the Protestant Reformation and Renaissance. It entailed the triumph of critical rationality whereby everything had to be tested by the touch-stone of reason.