Abstract
The Enlightenment movement, in which France takes the lead, is a yearning for freedom. This idea of Lights will also highlight the concept of unity among citizens within a nation. After the death of Louis XIV, his funeral procession was booed. The Regency organizes orgies. We see a total reaction against the previous Iron Age. It is the conquest of the body, the era of Casanova. Lights are indeed a European movement. It began in 1688 in England which created a parliament, or the beginnings of a democracy. John Locke wrote in 1690, The Essay Concerning Human Understanding: There is nothing sure, everything depends on experience. The human mind does not suffer an immutable truth. Immanuel Kant said that there is a discovery to be done to be a citizen is morality. This moral law is based on the most precious link, the more difficult to conceive freedom. It is education that will allow it. Beaumarchais, an adventurer, also played an important role.
