... unfounded. There were several cases in which a persons words or thoughts and beliefs were more than enough to have them imprisoned and sentenced to death. One of these people was Claude - Valentin. "It would have been better, he declared, if she had supported the Austrians." (1) Now, if one were to examine the context of this quotation by Valentin, then one would ... Tribunal, months after he had first been arrested. So, it was in fact, the lengthy imprisonment and the heightened build up of tensions that it brought with it that caused Claude - Valentin to crack and hence, sentence hims...

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... , and comte de Buffon; Baron Turgot and other physiocrats; and Jean Jacques Rousseau, who greatly influenced romanticism. Many opposed the extreme materialism of Julien de La Mettrie, baron d' Holbach, and Claude Helvétius. 4 In England the coffeehouses and the newly flourishing press stimulated social and political criticism, such as the urbane commentary of Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele. Jonathan ... ...

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