1. Enlightenment Ideas Spread
Objective: SWBAT identify the roles that censorship and salons played in the spread of new ideas

2. Do Now /12/12
Grab test off the table – you’ll have the first 5 minutes to look over your answers
Pick up guided notes

3. New Ideas Challenge Society
Prior to Enlightenment people accepted the ideas of
divine right,
strict class system,
& belief in heavenly reward for earthly suffering
Educated people read Diderot’s encyclopedia
More people saw that reform was necessary
A just society should ensure social justice and happiness
Not everyone agreed with these new ideas

4. Writers Face Censorship
church and government authorities felt they had a sacred duty to defend the old order (GOD)
Waged a war = censorship
restricted access to ideas and information
banned and burned books  imprisoned writers
Voltaire (Bastille)

5. Persian Letters To avoid censorship writers disguised work as fiction
Montesquieu
two fictional characters
Usbek and Rica
mocked French society

6. Writers Face Censorship
Voltaire
Candide 1759:
travels across Europe, the Americas and the Middle East
looking for the “best of all possible worlds”
Used this tale to expose the corruption and hypocrisy of European Society

7. Ideas Spread in Salons Salons informal social gatherings
writers, artists, philosophes, & others exchanged ideas
1600s noble women in Paris – poetry readings
1700s middle class women
allowed middle class citizens to meet with nobility on an equal level to discuss & spread Enlightenment ideas

8. Salons Madame Geoffrin  Rue St. Honore
Brought together best and brightest
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played for her guests

9. Composers Classical music
Ballets & operas  opera houses formed across Europe
Growing middle class could now afford to pay for concerts

10. Composers Johann Sebastian Bach – religious works Organ and choirs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Child prodigy – developed new styles
Died at 35 in poverty

11. Bach
Symphony 40
Requiem
Marriage of Figero

12. Enlightened Despots Frederick the Great  Prussia 1740-1786
“first servant of the state”
Work for the common good

13. Enlightened Despots Catherine the Great  Russia Equality and liberty
Abolished torture and established religious tolerance

14. Enlightened Despots Joseph II  Austria Religious equality
Ended censorship  free press
Abolished serfdom
All ended after his death

15. Exit Ticket
How did censorship and the emergence of salons play a role in spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment?