![]() ![]() ![]() Father Terrier is bothered by the philosophers who question religion, and laments that nothing can simply be right or wrong anymore. He sees the new possibility for someone (like Pélissier) to move up the social ladder and become financially successful as a dangerous one, and is uncomfortable with the fact that due to the rise of humanism and growing interest in science, even women are reading now. Several characters in the novel are made very uncomfortable by these changes, most notably Baldini. This rise of the public sphere is also associated with the rise of capitalism. ![]() It also saw the rise of the "public sphere," which allowed for greater exchange of ideas and opened every topic up for criticism. The Enlightenment saw a boom in philosophical, political, and scientific study, which in turn influenced the governing and religious institutions and began to lay the groundwork to change them into the types of institutions we'd recognize as modern. Perfume takes place during the Enlightenment in France, which is most commonly dated from 1715, when Louis XIV, died to 1789, the year the French Revolution began. ![]()
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