Yes, the Noble Savage coming out of France, but the French Enlightenment was still rooted in humanism and reason - which the Germans strongly opposed in the 1800’s with Romanticism and Existentialism, and finally Social Darwinism starring Ernst Haeckel. While France has an underground proto-fascism churning underneath the surface in its historical past, it was especially open and promoted in Germany academia throughout the 1800’s.
There was a thread about Wagner yesterday and he was one of the great exponents (intentionally or not) of anti-rationalism.