Enlightenment

By The Newsroom

Published 18th Feb 2010, 18:31 BST

Updated 18th Feb 2010, 18:52 BST

Robert Veitch (Letters, 17 February) says the Enlightenment started in England. I am sure "les philosophes" in France like Diderot, Voltaire and Rousseau would have had something to say about that. They produced the "Encyclopedie" one of the principal works of the Enlightenment. Here they attacked contemporary religion and argued for reason to take its place, and quite rightly so.

Eva Tyson

Dalgety Bay, Fife