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(i) One important law that came into effect soon after the storming of the Bastille in the summer of 1789 was the abolition of censorship.
(ii) In the old regime all written material and cultural activities- books, newspapers, plays- could be published or performed only after they had been approved by the censors of the king.
(iii) Now the declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen proclaimed freedom of speech and expression to be a natural right.
(iv) Newspapers, pamphlets, books and printed pictures flooded the towns of France from where they travelled rapidly into the countryside. They all described and discussed the events and changes taking place in France.
(v) Freedom of the press also meant that opposing views of events could be expressed. Each side sought to convince the others of its position through the medium of print.
(vi) This was one way they would grasp and identify with ideas such as liberty or justice that political philosophers whose about at length in texts which only a handful of educated people could read.
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