In examining the writings of the group of thinkers known as the Philosophes - Voltaire, Helvetius, Diderot, d'Alembert, d'Holbach and Condorcet - the author's purpose isto establish what practical changes these men sought in France in the decade before 1789, and to determine to what extent these changes were put into practice from 1789 onwards.
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