Abstract
The 16th century has been the century of the Scientific Revolution. Throughout Europe, Science renewed in a new form, and that rebirth gave what we call today the Scientific Revolution. Two centuries before, France had it's most important political revolution in 1789. After the French Revolution, the revolutionaries called the political regime they overtook the Old Regime. The Old Regime was characterized by absolutism, the absolute and centralized power for the monarch. By that time, France was the leader in Europe when it came to scientific progress. Sciences are plural; they cover a wide range of disciplines, such as medicine, chemistry, biology, physics etc. Science helped the regime. In what ways did it do so? How was science used by the regime in its reforming process? How was science used also in the making of the French Revolution? What can we consider the biggest reform of the old regime?
