Answer:
After
the fall of Bastille in the summer of 1789, one important law that came into
effect was the abolition of censorship. Before French Revolution 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.
This law changed the lives of the common people in the following ways
(i) The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
proclaimed freedom of speech and expression to be a natural right.
(ii) Newspapers, pamphlets, books and printed pictures
flooded the towns of France from where they could rapidly reach to the
countryside.
(iii) These all discussed events and changes that took place
in France.
(iv) Freedom of press meant that opposing views of events
could be expressed.
(v) Plays, songs and festive procession attracted common
men through which they could identify the ideas of liberty or justice of the
political philosophers.
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