Your teacher might balk at this, but there is not just one Enlightenment.
The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Despite all the rhetoric, the French Enlightenment ended in the Vendee Genocide. Solzhenitsyn was adamant on this point. Above all, it was NOT a government by or for the people and unlike the US, it didn't accept the equality of all humans or the existence of inviolable God-given rights.
