Who is called the “Father of French Revolution”?

Who is called the “Father of French Revolution”?

  • (a) Thomas Hobbes
  • (b) Rousseau
  • (c) Francis Bacon
  • (d) Montesquieu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is commonly known as the “Father of the French Revolution” due to the strong influence of his ideas on the political and social thought of the time. His influential work, The Social Contract (1762), introduced radical ideas such as popular sovereignty, or the idea that the government derives its power from the consent of the people, and the General Will. Such ideas questioned the absolute authority of the French monarchy and formed the ideological foundation for the leaders of the French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
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