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1 Enlightenment Ideas Spread Paris, France, the heart of the Enlightenment, drew many intellectuals and others eager to debate new ideas. Enlightenment ideas flowed from France, across Europe, and beyond. Everywhere, thinkers examined traditional beliefs and customs in the light of reason and found them flawed. New Ideas Challenge Society Enlightenment Ideas spread quickly through many levels of society. People all over Europe not only read Diderot s Encyclopedia, but also the small, inexpensive pamphlets that printers churned out on a broad range or issues. Then, people started to realize that reform was necessary in order to achieve a just society. During the Middle Ages, most Europeans had accepted a society based on divine-right rule, a strict class system, and a belief in heavenly reward and for earthly suffering. A just society of Enlightenment thinkers, taught that we should ensure social justice and happiness in this world, but not everyone agreed with this idea of replacing the values that existed. Writer Face Censorship Most government and church authorities felt that they had a sacred duty to defend the old order because they believed that God had set up the old order. They waged a war of censorship, to protect against the attacks of the Enlightenment. They also banned and burned books, and imprisoned writers. To avoid censorship, philosophes and writers like Montesquieu and Voltaire sometimes disguised their ideas in works of fiction. In Persian letters, Montesquieu used two Persian travelers, named Usbek and Rica, to mock French society.

2 Voltaire s novel, Candide, published in It traveled across Europe and even to the Americas and the Middle East. Voltaire uses the tale to expose the corruption and hypocrisy of European society. Ideas Spread in Salons New literature, the arts, science, and philosophy were regular topics and discussion in salons. The salon originated in the 1600s, when a group of noble women in Paris began inviting a few friends to their homes for poetry readings. Some Middle-class women began holding salons, but the 1700s. Madame Geoffrin ran one of the most respected salons. She got together the brightest and most talented people of her day. They young musical genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played for her guests, and Diderot would come weekly to her dinners for philosophers and poets. Arts and Literature Reflect New Ideas In early periods, artists and composers had to please their patrons. From Grandeur to Charm Courtly art and architecture were either in the Greek and Roman tradition or in a grand, ornate style known as baroque. Baroque paintings were huge, colorful, and full of excitement. They glorified battles or the lives of saints. Louis XV s lifestyle was much less formal than Louis XIV. Architects and designers reflected this change by developing the rococo style. Rococo art moved away from religion, and unlike the heavy splendor of the baroque, it was much lighter, and also charming. Rococo art in salons was believed to encourage the imagination.

3 Although this style was criticized by the philosophes for its superficiality, it had a vast audience in the upper class and with the growing middle class as well. The Enlightenment Inspires Composers The new Enlightenment ideals led composers and musicians to develop new reforms of music. There was a transition in music, as well as art, from the baroque style to rococo. An elegant style of music known as classical followed. Ballets and operas were performed at royal courts, and opera houses sprang up from Italy to England. Before this era, only the social elite could afford to commission musicians to play for them, but in the early mid 1700s, the growing middle class could afford to pay for concerts to be performed publicity. (this is the last paragraph of "the enlightenment inspires composers) -Composer Franz Joseph Haydn was one of the most important figures in the development of classical music, he help develop forms for the string quartet and symphony -Haydn had a close friendship with Mozart, who was a child prodigy and gained instant celebrity status as a composer and performer. -His operas, symphonies, and moving religious music helped define the new style of composition -Mozart produced an enormous amount of music during his life time, and died of poverty at age 35 The novel takes shape -by the 1700's literature developed new forms and a wider audience, middle class readers liked stories about their own times told in straightforward prose, one result was an outpouring of novels, (long works of prose fiction) -English novelists wrote many popular stories, ex: Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe(about a man shipwrecked on an island), Samuel Richardson wrote Pamela (about a servant girl written in a series of letters) -This technique was adopted by other authors of the period

4 Enlightened Despots embrace New ideas: -Philosophes persuaded rulers to adopt their ideas, the philosophes hoped to convince the ruling classes that reform was necessary -Some monarchs did accept these Enlightenment ideas, while others still practiced absolutism (a political doctrine in which a monarch had seemingly unlimited power) -Those who did accept these new ideas became enlightened despots, absolute runes who used their power to bring political and social change Frederick II attempts to reform -Frederick II=Frederick the great, exerted tight control over his subjects during his reign as king of Prussia, located north of Poland and Austria, below the Baltic sea) from 1740 to He saw himself as the "first servant of the state" with a duty to work for the common good. -He praised Voltaries work, and invited French intellectuals of the age to Prussia -the first acts of his was to allow free press and reduce torture -the reforms were a way to make the Prussian government more efficient. He did this by reorganizing the government's civil service and simplified laws -He tolerated religious differences, welcoming victims of religious persecution -his tolerance for religious differences and hate of torture showed his belief in enlightened reform, although at the end he made himself more powerful (stronger monarchy) Catherine the Great studies Philosophes works -Catherine II=Catherine the great, became empress of Russia in she read the works of philosophes and was in contact with Voltaire and Diderot -She believed in the enlightenment ideas of equality and liberty - she made limited reforms in law and government, she abolished torture and established religious tolerance in her lands, and she granted nobles a charter of rights and criticized the institution of serfdom - She did not intend to give up power, and her main political contribution to Russia was an expanded empire Joseph II continues Reform -In Austria, Hapsburg empress Maria Theresa ruled as an absolute monarch, she was considered an enlightened despot and improved peasants way of life.

5 -Her son, Joseph II, was also an enlightened despot and was an eager student -He continued the work of Theresa, who begun to modernize Austria s government -Joseph II supported religious equality for protestants and Jews in his catholic empire -ended censorship by allowing a free press and attempted to bring the catholic church under royal control - He abolished serfdom, but this was canceled after his death Lives of the Majority change slowly -most Europeans weren t courtly or middle class, they were mainly peasants living in rural villages -there was still serfdom despite advances in Western Europe, their culture changed slowly -by the late 1700s, ideas about equality and social justice spread into peasant villages, some welcomed this idea while others didn t -1800s, war and political upheaval as well as changing economic conditions would transform peasant life in Europe

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