1. The Enlightenment Spreads
Chapter 6 Section 3

2. Enlightenment Spreads
Books
Magazines
Newspapers
Pamphlets
Political songs
Word of Mouth
All helped influence anything from art to government

3. Paris
Huge center for the Enlightenment

4. Salons A social gathering, typically held in a wealthy home
Intellects met to discuss ideas

5. Marie-Therese Geoffrin
Influential Salon Hostess
She helped finance Denis Diderot’s first Encyclopedia project.

6. Encyclopedia
Large set of books in which many leading scholars contributed articles.
Helped to spread Enlightenment ideas to all educated people around Europe.

7. Baroque Dominated the style of art in the 1600s and 1700s.
Elaborate, grand, ornate design

8. Neoclassical Artistic style of the late 1700s
Bringing back classical ideas from Greece and Rome

9. Music
Classical Music emerged
Mozart
Beethoven

10. Writing Writing also changed Everyday language Entertaining stories
Carefully crafted plots
Suspense
Explored characters’ thoughts and feelings

11. Enlightenment Despots
Despot means “absolute ruler”
Many thinkers of the period believed monarchs that respected the people was the best government
Rulers who tried to do this became known as Enlightenment Despots

12. Frederick the Great of Prussia
Granted many religious freedoms
Reduced censorship
Improved education
Abolished the use of torture

13. Joseph II of Austria Legal reforms Freedom of the press
Freedom of worship
Ended serfdom and ordered peasants be paid cash for their labor

14. Catherine the Great of Russia
Formed a commission to…
Religious toleration
Abolished torture and capital punishment
Limited reforms actually passed
Greatly increased Russia’s size