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Why did some historians feel that printing technology created the basis for French Revolution?

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(i) Print popularized the ideas of enlightened thinkers on traditions, superstitions and despotism.

(ii) They advocated reasons.

(iii) People read books of Voltaire and Rousseau. Print created dialogue and debate.

(iv) People started discussion and evaluated the royalty. Print literature mocked the royalty. These kind of print literature circulated underground and it created awareness among people and formed the basis of French Revolution. 

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