Question

Answer all questions given under the heading.

The French Philosophers

1. Mention the famous quote of Voltaire.
2. What was famously said by Rousseau in his ‘Social Contract’.
3. Who wrote the ‘Persian Letters’
4. What was the impact of these Philosophers on French society?

Answer 1

1. Voltaire’s most famous quote was: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
2. Rousseau-famously said in his book Social Contract: “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”
3. Montesquieu wrote the ‘Persian Letters’.
4. These philosophers and thinkers, opposed to religious intolerance and political and social privileges, succeeded in provoking large numbers of ordinary people to think and act.