The image of the French Enlightenment in the R. Vipper’s works
The article reveals the image of the French Enlightenment, created at the turn of XIX-XX centuries russian researcher R. Vipper: the age of reason, progressive vision of history, the emergence of a new participant of public life of the people and of the Association of European peoples in a single whole. The article presents the proposed by the historian periodization of French Enlightenment and its grounds, the characteristics of the key figures of this period, and its place in the general course of the development of European civilization. So also denotes the change of methodological priorities of the historian, begun in the beginning of the XX century and its influence on the study of the age of Enlightenment.