The Age of Reason

Foreword by Adam Nicolson

Author’s Note

Introduction

1: Courtly Standards (Saint Simon, 1675–1755)

2: Rationalism (Pierre Bayle, 1647–1706)

3: Setting Sun (Louis XIV, 1700–1715)

4: The Emergence of Muscovy (Peter the Great, 1672–1725)

5: Skepticism (Voltaire, 1694–1778)

6: Philosopher King (Frederick the Great, 1712–1786)

7: Semiramis (Catherine the Great, 1729–1796)

8: Complacency (Joseph Addison, 1672–1719)

9: Savage Pessimism (Jonathan Swift, 1667–1745)

10: Thirteen Colonies (1492–1783)

11: The Simple Man (Franklin, 1706–1790)

12: The Salons (1660–1789)

13: Dilettante (Horace Walpole, 1717–1797)

14: Free Thought (The Encyclopédie, 1751–1772)

15: Disintegration (Louis XV, 1715–1774)

16: Gullibility (Cagliostro, 1743–1795)

17: Solid Sense (Samuel Johnson, 1709–1784)

18: Sturm Und Drang (1770–1778)

19: Rights of Man (Thomas Paine, 1737–1809)

20: Religious Revival (John Wesley, 1703–1791)

21: Sensibility (Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712–1778)

Bibliography

Index