Lumières
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The Lumières (literally in English: Enlighteners) was a cultural, philosophical, literary and intellectual movement of the second half of the 18th century, originating in France and spreading throughout Europe. It included philosophers such as Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton. Over time it came to mean the Template:Lang, in English the Age of Enlightenment.
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See also
- Gazette de Leyde
- Political Spectrum
- Lettres d'une Péruvienne by Françoise de Graffigny
- Modernity
- Rationalism
- Universalism
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