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The Enlightenment: Influence on European Thought

AP History

The Age of the Enlightenment

Rousseau

Rousseau's Enlightenment Ethics: The Synthesis of Materialism and Morals
Marco Di Palma, WorldCat
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)

Diderot

Denis Diderot Biography
Encyclopedia of World Biography
Denis Diderot (1713—1784)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)

Voltaire

Voltaire (1694-1778)
Lewis, Hackett; World History International

A Reading in the Salon of Mme Geoffrin

A Reading in the Salon of Mme Geoffrin, 1755.

Public domain image, Wikimedia Commons

Salons

Salons in France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands
Rosena Davison
The Kingdom of Politesse: Salons and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Lilti, Antoine. Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts 1, no. 1 (May 1, 2009).