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 have 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. (5)
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