It could be said that each society had its own period of enlightenment, and that it’s just a coincidence that many of their eras of enlightenment happened in a similar timeframe. Any society you look at has an enlightenment of its own, from England and various other nations holding a religious revolution, to the Americans taking ideas circulating in other societies to start a massive fist fight with the English over representation and taxation. The French took it on themselves to go head to head with England as well, helping in the American war efforts, and taking English philosophies to discuss as their own. Denis Diderot was one of the few Frenchmen who owned up to the deed, calling himself the “most English of Frenchmen”. Diderot acknowledge