If you subscribe to the premise that the French Revolution was a grass roots movement by the people in the street, they would have had very limited effect because of literacy. (If the Third Estate was made up of 97 percent of the French population and 80 percent of the Third Estate were illiterate peasants, then about 75 percent of all Frenchmen and Frenchwomen had never heard of Enlightenment or of Philosophy and Philosophers.) For the man on the street it was all about hope for a better tomorrow and bread on the table today.
If you choose to believe in a Top Down origin to the Revolution, then someone had to convince the great majority that they had certain basic human rights, and they would not have received such information from the Nobles or the Catholic Clergy.
though there were many philosophers during the revolution but some of the philosophers writings really fomented the situation...among them were
jean jacques rousseau
montequieu
maximilien robespierre
count mirabeau
The French Philosopher did not play any active role in the outbreak of the French revolution but their ideas was the inspiration to the revolutionary movement.
hum french revolution? you mean 1789 revolution?
The role of thinkers and philosophers such as Voltaire, Diderotin, Rousseau, and Montesquieu in French Revolution included encouraging people to fight for their rights, and expressing the inefficiency of the monarch.
He created the Reign of Terror and became a victim of it.
Benjamin Franklin's most important contribution was that he served as American ambassador to France and persuaded the French to join the war on America's side.
He was instrumental in gaining French military equipment, weapons, ammunition and support for the Continental Army.
hum french revolution? you mean 1789 revolution?
voltaire,rousseau,montesquieu and diderot
The role of thinkers and philosophers such as Voltaire, Diderotin, Rousseau, and Montesquieu in French Revolution included encouraging people to fight for their rights, and expressing the inefficiency of the monarch.
John Locke's contribution was that he was a studied philosopher and he saw that the clergy and nobility were prvileged so he tell the common people to fight for their right from this gave rise to french revolution. finally because of John Locke's contribution they got their rights
He ended the Royalist counter-revolution with a whiff of grapeshot.
He created the Reign of Terror and became a victim of it.
The enlightened thinkers i.e. the writers and philosophers were the one. When the political ,social and economic conditions in France decline the writers and philosophers evoked a new light of hope in the common masses with their writings which subsequently acted as an intellectual cause of french revolution. They condemnded the prevailing social system as well
The METRIC SYSTEM is one contribution of the French Revolution which remains with us to the present day.
The Enlightenment, put forward by French philosophers, spread ideals of independence, democracy, self-rule. They were put in practice by the Americans revolution with the help of the French, and swung back to France afterwards, although in a more dramatic way.
The French philosophers are Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau, Denis Diderot.
The contributions of the western philosophers were quite significant especially in the western civilization. Most of the ideologies that are used in the world were developed by western philosophers.
Benjamin Franklin's most important contribution was that he served as American ambassador to France and persuaded the French to join the war on America's side.