Question

identify Voltaire,Rousseau,Montesquieu.What part did they play in french revolution

Answer 1

Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau were the thinkers whose ideas sparked the French Revolution.

Montesquieu or Charles Louis de Secondat, was born in a wealthy French family. He was a moderate thinker. He travelled around Europe, and introduced the different political and administrative systems prevalent in various places to the French people. At that time England had a controlled monarchy system while in France there was absolute autocracy. He inspired the people towards a government like England.

Voltaire or Francois Marie Arouet was a strong critic of religious leaders in France. He did not criticise the monarchy directly. He advocated free thinking. He instilled courage in the people to raise their voice against the church and the royals.

Jean Jacques Rousseau said, "The man is born free. But he is chained everywhere." He was influenced by Voltaire. He was the most influential French thinker of his time and is called the architect of the modern era in European thinking. He wrote, 'Emilie' and 'Social Contract'.

Answer 2

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Exploltaire was a french philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century, mainly active in France.

Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, and political philosopher.

Their role in the French Revolution :-

France in the 18th century had many revolutionary thinkers. Among them were Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu and Diderot. Their revolutionary ideas encouraged people to fight for their rights. They exposed the inefficiency of the monarch and his government and influenced the people to challenge authority.Basically, the ideologies of the French philosophers was the basis of the French Revolution.These philosophers mentioned the ideas of freedom and equality in the books written by them.

Rousseau proposed a division of power within the government and their representatives in his book social contract.

Montesquieu proposed the division of power within the government between the legislative, the Executive anx and the judiciary in his book The spirit of the laws.

Voltaire believed in the idea of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state.anation: