Modern French Intellectuals’ Public"Intervention"

During the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, the French have emerged alarge number of thinkers of knowledgeable, versatile, and bravely, their pursuit of thetruth, criticized the injustice of society. In many thinkers, Voltaire was one of the mostprominent representatives. In addition to used his own ideas and stroke as a weapon tofight with the feudal autocratic and Catholic, he also actually got involved in Karaevent. Huguenots Kara framed killed the eldest son Anthony that he actuallycommitted suicide on the grounds that Anthony would like to convert to Catholicism.Kara was arrested and impose a punishment of tying. After understanded the truth ofthe matter, Voltaire actively involved in case of Kara and successfully vindicated forKara. Kara event educated Frenchman then, blow the feudal autocratic and religiousfanaticism. And Voltaire’s "Intervention" to wait a French public intellectuals " Intervention" on a precedent, modern French intellectuals public "Intervention" beganto sprout.Following after Voltaire, French had some writers, poets, writers, artists put intopolitics. And by the end of the19th century, France has shocked by the Dreyfus affair.In the French army, Jewish Dreyfus was framed as a spy, and exiled. Zola heard aboutthis event and later rose of Dreyfus to rectify, and called the society people with aconscience to seek justice. Modern French intellectuals thus were "born". Frenchintellectuals were " born" and at the same time, it divided into Dreyfus pie (left-wing)and Anti-Dreyfus pie (right-wing) for domestic situation. Both sides of Intellectualsfought for their pursuit of the value, finally left wing won, Dreyfus was vindicated,French politics began to turn left. Vindication of The Dreyfus affair not onlysuccessfully affected the France politics at that time and beyond, but also reflected thestrong power and forces of the French intellectuals, let people see clearly theimportance and necessity of "Intervention". It had a huge impact on later age, the20thcentury became a positive "Intervention " century.Modern French intellectuals, from Voltaire to Zola, their "Intervention" have thecontinuity, but also have their own different characteristics. At the same time modernFrench intellectuals’"Intervention" is not a sudden, It is inextricably linked to thecultural traditions of France. The French intellectuals "Intervention" not only has thehuge influence of the society at that time, also has a profound influence on later age, especially French society in the20th century. Intellectuals, because of its definition,mission and exist make "Intervention" become a necessary, with the "Intervention"intellectuals act as "social conscience", maintaining the stability of social order andpromoting the development of human society civilization.