Age of Reason

  • James II

    James II left the throne and fled to England
  • Montesquieu

    published The SPirit of the Laws
  • Enclycopedia

    1751-1789; more than 4,000 copies were printed
  • Rousseau

    set fourth his ideas about government and society in The Social Contract
  • Wollstonecraft

    published a Vindication of the Rights of Women