| Member of the learned society and a scientist during the Age of Enlightenment, he was the commander on board the first hot-air balloon flight, in the company of the Marquis of Arlandes. |
| During the Age of Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries, many critical thinkers saw religion as antithetical to reason. |
| It does not suffice to say that eleven other European countries are doing it: historically, France is the only Western country founded solely on the philosophical values and principles inherited from the Age of Enlightenment. |
| The Napoleonic civil code is seen in Latin America as the symbol of Revolution, as the key product of the Age of Enlightenment. |
| The Age of Enlightenment turned into an era of political ferment marked by revolutions in France, Germany, and Italy and the rise of abolitionism. |
| During the Age of Enlightenment, the modern development of historiography through the application of scrupulous methods began. |