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Where to See
Enlightenment Paris
The district around the Rue de
Madame de Pompadour Lille, the Rue de Varenne and
Although generally the Rue de Grenelle (p191) has
remembered as the many luxurious town houses, or
mistress of Louis XV, she hôtels, which were built by the
was renowned as a patron aristocracy during the first half of
of the arts and had great the 18th century. Memorabilia
political influence. from the lives of the great
intellectuals Voltaire and Jean-
Chocolate Pot Jacques Rousseau are in the
By the 18th century, Musée Carnavalet (pp96–7),
bourgeois families could along with 18th-century interior
afford tobacco, tea, designs and paintings. The
chocolate and coffee from imposing Hôtel des Monnaies
Asia and the New World. (royal mint), which houses the
Musée de la Monnaie (p143), is
a fine example of the rational
Vestibule with Neo-Classicism of architecture
painted ceiling during the Enlightenment.

Portico with Doric
columns

Churches were built throughout
the Enlightenment. St-Sulpice
(p174) was completed in 1776.

The Catacombs
These were set up in
1786 as a more
hygienic alternative Le Procope (p142) is the oldest
to Paris’s cemeteries café in Paris. It was frequented
(see p181). by Voltaire and Rousseau.

1764 Madame de 1778 France 1785 David
Pompadour dies 1774 Louis XV, supports paints the
great grandson of American Oath of the
1757 First oil independence Horatii
street lamps Louis XIV, dies
1750 1760 1770 1780
Rousseau, philosopher and
c.1760 Place de la 1762 Rousseau’s writer, believed that humans 1782 First 1783 Montgolfier
Concorde, Panthéon Emile and the were naturally good and had pavements built, brothers make
and Ecole Militaire built Social Contract been corrupted by society. in the Place du the first hot-air
published Théâtre Français balloon ascent

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