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Encyclopédistes

Index Encyclopédistes

The Encyclopédistes were members of the Société des gens de lettres, a French writer's society, who contributed to the development of the Encyclopédie from June 1751 to December 1765 under editors Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. [1]

48 relations: Age of Enlightenment, André le Breton, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Antoine Louis, Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis, Arnulphe d'Aumont, Étienne Noël Damilaville, Baron d'Holbach, César Chesneau Dumarsais, Claude Bourgelat, Claude Yvon, Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Denis Diderot, Dezallier d'Argenville, Edmé-François Mallet, Encyclopédie, François-Vincent Toussaint, Gabriel François Venel, Guillaume Le Blond, Jacques-François Blondel, Jacques-François de Villiers, Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, Jean Pestré, Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre le Romain, Jean-François Marmontel, Jean-François-Henri Collot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve, Louis de Jaucourt, Louis-Jacques Goussier, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Marc-Antoine Eidous, Montesquieu, Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy, Paul Jacques Malouin, Philosophes, Pierre Tarin, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot, Robert James (physician), Société des gens de lettres, Suzanne Verdier, Typography, Urbain de Vandenesse, Voltaire, Wikipedia community.

Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason; in lit in Aufklärung, "Enlightenment", in L’Illuminismo, “Enlightenment” and in Spanish: La Ilustración, "Enlightenment") was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy".

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André le Breton

André François le Breton (2 September 1708 – 5 October 1779) was a French publisher.

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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne (10 May 172718 March 1781), commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman.

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Antoine Louis

Antoine Louis (13 February 1723, Metz – 20 May 1792) was an 18th-century French surgeon and physiologist.

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Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis

Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis (April 3, 1708 in Lyon – January 25, 1791 in Paris age 82) was a French lawyer.

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Arnulphe d'Aumont

Arnulphe d'Aumont (December 27, 1720 – August 8, 1800) was a French doctor.

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Étienne Noël Damilaville

Étienne Noël Damilaville 21 November 1723 – 13 December 1768) was an 18th-century French man of letters, friend of Voltaire, Diderot and d'Alembert. He served in various military and administrative functions of the Ancien Régime. He was a member of the bodyguard of King Louis XV, and then a senior civil servant in the tax office responsible for supervising the Vingtième. His official roles meant that his correspondence was unexamined by censors, enabling him to circulate letters between leading thinkers of the day, most particularly during the Sirven affair.

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Baron d'Holbach

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach, was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and prominent figure in the French Enlightenment.

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César Chesneau Dumarsais

César Chesneau, sieur Dumarsais or Du Marsais (July 17, 1676 – June 11, 1756) was a French philosophe, grammarian and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.

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Claude Bourgelat

Claude Bourgelat (27 March 1712 – 3 January 1779) was a French veterinary surgeon.

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Claude Yvon

The Abbé Claude Yvon (15 April 1714 – November 1789) was a French encyclopédiste, a savant who contributed to the Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

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Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

Cyclopædia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (two volumes in folio) was an encyclopedia published by Ephraim Chambers in London in 1728, and reprinted in numerous editions in the eighteenth century.

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

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Dezallier d'Argenville

The family of Dezallier d'Argenville produced two writers and connoisseurs in the course of the 18th century.

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Edmé-François Mallet

Edmé-François Mallet, also abbé Mallet, (29 January 1713, Melun – 25 February 1755, Châteaurenard) was an 18th-century French theologian and encyclopédiste.

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Encyclopédie

Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (English: Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts), better known as Encyclopédie, was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations.

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François-Vincent Toussaint

François-Vincent Toussaint (21 December 1715 - 22 June 1772) was a French writer most famous for Les Mœurs (The Manners).

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Gabriel François Venel

Gabriel François Venel (23 August 1723, Tourbes – 29 October 1775, Pézenas) was a French chemist, physician and a contributor to the Encyclopédie, (673 items; Louis Dulieu, Gabriel-François Venel.: Bulletin de l'Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier, nouvelle série, III, 1972, p. 123-135. articles on chemistry, pharmacy, physiology and medicine).

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Guillaume Le Blond

Guillaume Le Blond (1704 – May 24, 1781) was a French mathematician.

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Jacques-François Blondel

Jacques-François Blondel (8 January 1705 – 9 January 1774) was an 18th-century French architect and teacher.

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Jacques-François de Villiers

Jacques-François de Villiers (1727–1794) was a French physician and translator.

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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes.

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Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist.

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Jean Paul de Gua de Malves

Jean Paul de Gua de Malves (1713, Malves-en-Minervois (Aude) – June 2, 1785, Paris) was a French mathematician who published in 1740 a work on analytical geometry in which he applied it, without the aid of differential calculus, to find the tangents, asymptotes, and various singular points of an algebraic curve.

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Jean Pestré

Jean Pestré, or Pestre, (1723, Saint-Geniez-d'Olt – 1821, Paris) was an 18th–19th-century French theologian.

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Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle

Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle (c.1710–1792, Paris) was a French priest, mathematician and inventor.

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Jean-Baptiste-Pierre le Romain

Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Romain (Dates of birth and death unknown) was a French engineer and contributor to the Encyclopédie during the eighteenth century and age of Enlightenment.

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Jean-François Marmontel

Jean-François Marmontel (11 July 1723 – 31 December 1799) was a French historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopédistes movement.

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Jean-François-Henri Collot

Jean-François-Henri Collot (Pont-d’Arches, near Charleville-Mézières 26 January 1716 – October 1804 in Mesnil, near Châlons-sur-Marne) was an 18th-century French homme de lettres and encyclopédiste.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.

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Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve

Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve (16 October 1703, Moncontour – 10 November 1781, Néris-les-Bains, Allier) was an 18th-century French economist.

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Louis de Jaucourt

Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt (16 September 1704 – 3 February 1779) was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie.

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Louis-Jacques Goussier

Louis-Jacques Goussier (Paris, 7 March 1722 - Paris, 23 October 1799) was a French illustrator and encyclopedist.

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Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton

Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (29 May 1716 – 1 January 1800) was a French naturalist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.

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Marc-Antoine Eidous

Marc-Antoine Eidous (c.1724 - c.1790) was a French writer, translator and Encyclopedist born in Marseilles.

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Montesquieu

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, and political philosopher.

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Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy

Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy (5 October 1674 – 16 January 1755) was a French scholar, historian, geographer, philosopher and bibliographer of alchemy.

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Paul Jacques Malouin

Paul Jacques Malouin (27 June 1701 Caen – 3 January 1778 Versailles) was a French chemist and physicist.

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Philosophes

The philosophes (French for "philosophers") were the intellectuals of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

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Pierre Tarin

Pierre Tarin (1735–1761) was a French doctor, writer, and translator, born in Courtenay.

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Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot

The Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot (Discours Préliminaire des Éditeurs) is the primer to Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres, a collaborative collection of all the known branches of the arts and sciences of the 18th century French Enlightenment.

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Robert James (physician)

Robert James (1703 – 23 March 1776) was an English physician who is best known as the author of A Medicinal Dictionary, as the inventor of a popular "fever powder", and as a friend of Samuel Johnson.

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Société des gens de lettres

The Société des gens de lettres de France ("Society of Men of Letters of France"), or SGDLF, is a writers' association founded in 1838 by the notable French authors Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, and George Sand.

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Suzanne Verdier

Suzanne Verdier (1745 – 1813) was a French writer.

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Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed.

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Urbain de Vandenesse

Urbain de Vandenesse (? – 1753, Paris) was an 18th-century French physician and Encyclopédiste.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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Wikipedia community

The Wikipedia community is the community of contributors to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopédistes

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