Ch16Lesson2Part3

Back • Philosophes- French word meaning "philosophers," a group of people who attempted to use a reason for the good of the society.

• Charles - Louis de Secondat, the Baron de Montesquieu, studied a number of European governments and in 1748, published his findings.

• The English created a separation of powers by 3 branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial.

• Each branch was to limit the power of others through a system of checks and blances.

• Parliament was becoming a fast and dominat branch of power.

• Montesqview helped make the idea of separation of powers popular.

• Fransis -Marie Arouet or Voltaire,another important philosophe was a poet, novelist,playwright ,and philosophe.

• His theme were the need for religous toleration, justice for all free speech and end of slave trade.

• He was arrested and sent into exile when he continued to write.

• Denis Didrot published the 28 volume Encyclopedia, or Classified Dictionary of the Science, Arts ,and Trades. It took from 1751 to 1772 to complete. It's ideas spread as far as the Americas.