After the Revolution of 1789 in France, censorship abolished. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen proclaimed freedom of speech and expression to be a natural right. Newspapers, pamphlets, books and printed pictures flooded the towns of France from where they travelled rapidly into the countryside. They all described and discussed the events and changes taking place in France.Plays, songs and festive processions attracted large numbers of people and helped in grasping and identify with ideas such as liberty or justice that political philosophers wrote about at length in texts which only a handful of educated people could read.