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Which revolution, the French or the American, more completely embodied the spirit of the Enlightenment?

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The revolution which more directly captured the spirit of the Enlightenment was the French one. The French revolution was based on three basic principles: equality, freedom, brotherhood.

These three principles were also things which depicted enlightenment as a period extremelly well.
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