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How Enlightenment Crushed Its Creator

Tomas Pueyo
Mar 29
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Secularization led to a drop in the fertility rate in France a century before anywhere else in Europe. The consequence was a relative drop in population that destroyed its power in the continent. This led to the World Wars and France’s secondary role in the global order ever since, and shows the crucial factor of population in history and politics1.

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