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Program

Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education Faculty

Period of Performance

1/1/1976 - 9/30/1976

Funding Totals

$45,723.00 (approved)
$45,723.00 (awarded)

The French Enlightenment in the American Revolution

FAIN: FS-10441-76

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, IL 61801-3620)
A. Owen Aldridge (Project Director: January 1976 to present)

To explore the elements in the ideology of the American Revolution which derived from writers of the French Enlightenment emphasizing Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, and Raynal and their influence on Franklin, Paine, Adams, Jefferson , and the contributors to the Federalist Papers.