what were the intelectual causes of the french revolution
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What were the social, economic, political and intellectual causes of the French Revolution? Answer: Following were the social, economic, political and intellectual causes of the French Revolution: ... The clergy and the nobility formed the first two Estates and were the most privileged classes in the French society.
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Montesquieu outright rejected the theory of the Divine Right of the kings and he suggested that the king should be selected by the will of the people.
Voltaire awakened the people from their slumber and acquainted the people, by his ironical and satirical writings, with the highhandedness of the nobles and the clergy.
Rousseau gave the people of France the concept of democracy through his book Social Contract.
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