How do French people live with the fact the greatest ideological thinker of the French Revolution wasn't even European, let alone French?

None of the U.S. Founding Fathers ever said anything that European Enlightenment philosophers didn't already say. Their main contribution was applying the ideas to real-world politics.

>>17862254
Jefferson was a pagan germanic-boo. He even said the US had the right to become independent due to Saxon privilege.

>>17862234 (OP)
This creature never had an original thought in his life