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Civilisation
Season 1 · Episode 10
The Smile of Reason
8.050mApril 27, 1969
Here Clark discusses the Age of Enlightenment tracing it from the polite conversations in the elegant Parisian salons of eighteenth-century, through the subsequent revolutionary politics to the great European palaces of Blenheim and Versailles finally to Jefferson's Monticello.
Episodes
- Episode 1The Skin of Our Teeth
- Episode 2The Great Thaw
- Episode 3Romance and Reality
- Episode 4Man: The Measure of all Things
- Episode 5The Hero as Artist
- Episode 6Protest and Communication
- Episode 7Grandeur and Obedience
- Episode 8The Light of Experience
- Episode 9The Pursuit of Happiness
- Episode 10The Smile of Reason
- Episode 11The Worship of Nature
- Episode 12The Fallacies of Hope
- Episode 13Heroic Materialism