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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 aroused the people to challenge authority.
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Role of philosophers in the French revolution:
♟John Locke wrote two treatises of Government and criticized the divine and absolute rights of the ruler.
♟jean Jacques Rousseau wrote the social contract he gave the idea of formation of a government based on a social contract between people and their representative.
♟montesquieu wrote the spirit of the laws he believed in the division of power between three organs
♟philosopher wanted a society based on freedom and equal laws and opportunities for all.
♟ideas of philosophers were discussed in salons and coffee houses and inspired them to fight for their rights.