The following arguments are given in favor of the facts that the print culture created conditions for the French Revolution:
- Printing popularized the ideas of enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and Rousseau.
- Collectively their writings provided a critical commentary on tradition, superstition and despotism. They propagated “reasons”. This influenced people's minds to rebel against the monarchy.
- Printing created a new culture of dialogue and debate between old religious and political ideas and the new politico religious ideas. This led to the spread of new ideas of social revolution.
- Cartoons and caricatures that came into being through print technology, mocked monarchy and expressed the sufferings of common people. This also inflamed the fire of revolution