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What is the intellectual cause of the french revolution
The writers of France not only condemned the prevailing social system but also showed their resentment and discontentment against the evil practices of the church and thus roused the people from their slumber.

Undoubtedly, the French Revolution sprang from a combination of intellectual ferment and material grievances.

Montesquieu outright rejected the theory of the Divine Right of the kings and he suggested that the king should be selected by the will of the people.

Voltaire awakened the people from their slumber and acquainted the people, by his ironical and satirical writings, with the high­handedness of the nobles and the clergy.

Rousseau gave the people of France the concept of democracy through his book Social Contract.

He criticised the tyrannical rule of the kings of France and also held them responsible for bringing the country to the brink of revolution by their despotic and arbitrary acts


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