Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke -- The rights of man / Thomas Paine -- The necessity of the theocratic state / Joseph de Maistre -- The limitations of the enlightenment / Alexis de Tocqueville -- The spirit and doctrine of the enlightenment / Hippolyte Adolphe Taine -- The enlightenment as the fountain of social and political justice / Jules Michelet -- The sources of the democratic and republican ideals of the revolution / Alphonse Aulard -- The philosophes as pioneers of the revolution / Marius Roustan -- The subversive influence of the Sociétés de Pensée / Augustin Cochin -- The enlightenment as doctrinaire, irreligious and conspiratorial / Pierre Gaxotte -- The intellectual origins of the French Revolution / Daniel Mornet -- The Declaration of the rights of man as the essence of the enlightenment / Georges Lefebvre -- The influence of eighteenth century ideas on the French Revolution / Henri Peyre
