"A new vision of the future certainly emerged, but its apostles were to be found among both nobles and bourgeois---of the famous Philosophes of the Enlightenment most were either born or bought themselves into the nobility---and the first people who tried to translate the enlightenment ideas into practice were members of the government, all of whom, apart from Necker, were nobles."
Communities..., pb, p. 532, quoting C. B. A. Behrens, Society, Government, and Enlightenment: The Experiences of Eighteenth Century France and Prussia, p. 9.
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