How did the American and French revolutionaries use Enlightenment ideas to undermine their adversaries?

Why were certain Enlightenment ideas politically subversive?

Could Louis XVI have headed off the French Revolution? How?

Contrast the principles of the moderate and radical phases of the French Revolution.

What do you think of Robespierre?

Why were so many French men and women willing to die to defend the Republic in the 1790s?