Result · What Era Should You Have Lived In?

The Enlightenment

You write to provoke and you like irony that leaves no reply. Good era for it: the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert drew on roughly a hundred and fifty contributors over twenty years, and its article on Geneva caused an international scandal. The salons were the real seat of intellectual power, and women often ran them. What would have shut you in: royal censorship was real, not decorative. Diderot did time at Vincennes, Voltaire in the Bastille and then in exile, and a book could be burned by the public executioner. People published anonymously, abroad, and smuggled the copies in. Your pen mattered precisely because it could cost you your freedom.