The Wisdom of the Enlightenment Arthur Dobrin Along the way she provides

Along the way she provides brief biographies of three of the most influential figures in the city's history: urban designer Pierre Charles L'Enfant

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but in 1776 he was forced to flee to London

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The Wisdom of the Enlightenment Arthur Dobrin Along the way she providesEnlightenment Aufklarung in German, Lumieres in French is more an idea than a period. But it is an idea that took hold in a particular historical context of revolutionary scientific advances, increasing economic and social freedom, rising literacy and prosperity, and a greater willingness to challenge the authoritarianism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In The Wisdom of the Enlightenment, author Michael K. Kellogg points to 1637, the year