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How was the french revolution a change brought about by the enlightenment and rhe the american revolution?

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the Enlightenment had little impact on the sans-culottes, which in the Terror were the key driving force to the revolution in Paris. The enlightenment thinkers, especially John Locke and Montesquieu, heavily influenced the thinkers of that era and the American revolution
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