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href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%B5%E1%8A%92_%E1%8B%B2%E1%8B%B5%E1%88%AE" title="ድኒ ዲድሮ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ድኒ ዲድሮ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88" title="دنيس ديدرو – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="دنيس ديدرو" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ay mw-list-item"><a href="https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Aymara" lang="ay" hreflang="ay" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Aymar aru" data-language-local-name="Aymara" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aymar aru</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deni_Didro" title="Deni Didro – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Deni Didro" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE" title="Дени Дидро – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Дени Дидро" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%94%D0%B7%D1%96%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE" title="Дэні Дзідро – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Дэні Дзідро" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%94%D1%8B%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE" title="Дэні Дыдро – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Дэні Дыдро" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE" title="Дени Дидро – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Дени Дидро" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%8F%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%B4%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%8F%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A2%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8D" title="ཏེའུ་ཏེ་རོ། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཏེའུ་ཏེ་རོ།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE,_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8" title="Дидро, Дени – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Дидро, Дени" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%AF_%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%8C" title="Ντενί Ντιντερό – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ντενί Ντιντερό" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88" title="دنی دیدرو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دنی دیدرو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8B%84%E5%BE%B7%E7%BE%85" title="狄德羅 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="狄德羅" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%93%9C%EB%8B%88_%EB%94%94%EB%93%9C%EB%A1%9C" title="드니 디드로 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="드니 디드로" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%AB_%D4%B4%D5%AB%D5%A4%D6%80%D5%B8" title="Դենի Դիդրո – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դենի Դիդրո" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%93%D7%99%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%95" title="דני דידרו – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דני דידרו" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D" title="ಡೆನಿಸ್ ಡಿಡೆರೋಟ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಡೆನಿಸ್ ಡಿಡೆರೋಟ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98_%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D" title="დენი დიდრო – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="დენი დიდრო" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE" title="Дени Дидро – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Дени Дидро" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE" title="Дени Дидро – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Дени Дидро" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_Diderotus" title="Dionysius Diderotus – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Dionysius Diderotus" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den%C4%AB_Didro" title="Denī Didro – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Denī Didro" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE" title="Дени Дидро – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Дени Дидро" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98_%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D" title="დენი დიდრო – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="დენი დიდრო" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88" title="دنيس ديدرو – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="دنيس ديدرو" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE" title="Дэни Дидро – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Дэни Дидро" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AD" title="ドゥニ・ディドロ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ドゥニ・ディドロ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A6%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%8B" title="ਦੇਨੀ ਦਿਦਰੋ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਦੇਨੀ ਦਿਦਰੋ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%BA%D9%88" title="دنی دیدغو – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" 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srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Denis Diderot" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Denis_Diderot_by_Louis-Michel_van_Loo.jpg/330px-Denis_Diderot_by_Louis-Michel_van_Loo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Denis_Diderot_by_Louis-Michel_van_Loo.jpg/440px-Denis_Diderot_by_Louis-Michel_van_Loo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1248" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Portrait by Louis-Michel van Loo (1767)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1713-10-05</span>)</span>5 October 1713<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Langres" title="Langres">Langres</a>, Champagne, France</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">31 July 1784<span style="display:none">(1784-07-31)</span> (aged 70)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Paris, France</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Paris" title="University of Paris">University of Paris</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Antoinette_Champion" class="mw-redirect" title="Antoinette Champion">Antoinette Champion</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1743)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">4</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Era</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/18th-century_philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="18th-century philosophy">18th-century philosophy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Region</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Western_philosophy" title="Western philosophy">Western philosophy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_of_philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="List of schools of philosophy">School</a></th><td class="infobox-data category"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9distes" title="Encyclopédistes">Encyclopédistes</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/French_materialism" title="French materialism">French materialism</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Epicureanism" title="Epicureanism">Epicureanism</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Main interests</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Science, literature, philosophy, art<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 650">: 650 </span></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="infobox-signature skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Denis_Diderot_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Denis_Diderot_signature.svg/150px-Denis_Diderot_signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Denis_Diderot_signature.svg/225px-Denis_Diderot_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Denis_Diderot_signature.svg/300px-Denis_Diderot_signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="351" data-file-height="164" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Denis Diderot</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span></span>/</a></span></span>;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">French:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="fr-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/French" title="Help:IPA/French">[dəni<span class="wrap"> </span>did(ə)ʁo]</a></span>; 5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, <a href="/wiki/Art_critic" title="Art critic">art critic</a>, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die" title="Encyclopédie">Encyclopédie</a></i></span> along with <a href="/wiki/Jean_le_Rond_d%27Alembert" title="Jean le Rond d'Alembert">Jean le Rond d'Alembert</a>. He was a prominent figure during the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Age of Enlightenment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Diderot initially studied philosophy at a <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Jesuit</a> college, then considered working in the church clergy before briefly studying law. When he decided to become a writer in 1734, his father disowned him. He lived a <a href="/wiki/Bohemianism" title="Bohemianism">bohemian</a> existence for the next decade. In the 1740s he wrote many of his best-known works in both fiction and non-fiction, including the 1748 novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Indiscreet_Jewels" title="The Indiscreet Jewels">Les Bijoux indiscrets</a></i> (The Indiscreet Jewels). </p><p>In 1751 Diderot co-created the <i>Encyclopédie</i> with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. It was the first encyclopedia to include contributions from many named contributors and the first to describe the <a href="/wiki/Mechanical_arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Mechanical arts">mechanical arts</a>. Its secular tone, which included articles skeptical about <a href="/wiki/Biblical_miracles" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical miracles">Biblical miracles</a>, angered both religious and government authorities; in 1758 it was <a href="/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum" title="Index Librorum Prohibitorum">banned by the Catholic Church</a> and, in 1759, the French government banned it as well, although this ban was not strictly enforced. Many of the initial contributors to the <i>Encyclopédie</i> left the project as a result of its controversies and some were even jailed. D'Alembert left in 1759, making Diderot the sole editor. Diderot also became the main contributor, writing around 7,000 articles. He continued working on the project until 1765. He was increasingly despondent about the <i>Encyclopédie</i> by the end of his involvement in it and felt that the entire project might have been a waste. Nevertheless, the <i>Encyclopédie</i> is considered one of the forerunners of the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>. </p><p>Diderot struggled financially throughout most of his career and received very little official recognition of his merit, including being passed over for membership in the <a href="/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise" class="mw-redirect" title="Académie française">Académie française</a>. His fortunes improved significantly in 1766, when Empress <a href="/wiki/Catherine_the_Great" title="Catherine the Great">Catherine the Great</a>, who had heard of his financial troubles, generously bought his 3,000-volume personal library, amassed during his work on the Encyclopédie, for 15,000 livres, and offered him in addition a thousand more livres per year to serve as its custodian while he lived.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He received 50 years' "salary" up front from her, and stayed five months at her court in <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a> in 1773 and 1774, sharing discussions and writing essays on various topics for her several times a week.<sup id="cite_ref-Arthur_Wilson_1972_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arthur_Wilson_1972-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Diderot's literary reputation during his life rested primarily on his plays and his contributions to the <i>Encyclopédie</i>; many of his most important works, including <i><a href="/wiki/Jacques_the_Fatalist" title="Jacques the Fatalist">Jacques the Fatalist</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Rameau%27s_Nephew" title="Rameau's Nephew">Rameau's Nephew</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Paradox_of_the_Actor" title="Paradox of the Actor">Paradox of the Actor</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Le_R%C3%AAve_de_d%E2%80%99Alembert" class="mw-redirect" title="Le Rêve de d’Alembert">D'Alembert's Dream</a></i>, were published only after his death.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 678–679">: 678–679 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886046785">.mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}</style><div class="toclimit-3"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:N%C2%B0_9_de_la_place_dans_le_centre_ville_de_Langres.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/N%C2%B0_9_de_la_place_dans_le_centre_ville_de_Langres.jpg/220px-N%C2%B0_9_de_la_place_dans_le_centre_ville_de_Langres.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/N%C2%B0_9_de_la_place_dans_le_centre_ville_de_Langres.jpg/330px-N%C2%B0_9_de_la_place_dans_le_centre_ville_de_Langres.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/N%C2%B0_9_de_la_place_dans_le_centre_ville_de_Langres.jpg/440px-N%C2%B0_9_de_la_place_dans_le_centre_ville_de_Langres.jpg 2x" data-file-width="832" data-file-height="532" /></a><figcaption><i>N° 9 de la place dans le centre ville de Langres</i>: in the background on the right side is Diderot's birthplace</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Langres_-_Denis_Diderot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Langres_-_Denis_Diderot.jpg/170px-Langres_-_Denis_Diderot.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="326" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Langres_-_Denis_Diderot.jpg/255px-Langres_-_Denis_Diderot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Langres_-_Denis_Diderot.jpg/340px-Langres_-_Denis_Diderot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1310" data-file-height="2515" /></a><figcaption>Statue of Denis Diderot in the city of <a href="/wiki/Langres" title="Langres">Langres</a>, his birthplace</figcaption></figure> <p>Denis Diderot was born in <a href="/wiki/Langres" title="Langres">Langres</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Champagne" class="mw-redirect" title="Province of Champagne">Champagne</a>. His parents were <a href="/wiki/Didier_Diderot" title="Didier Diderot">Didier Diderot</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Cutlery" title="Cutlery">cutler</a>, <i>maître coutelier</i>, and Angélique Vigneron. Of Denis' five siblings, three survived to adulthood: Denise Diderot, their youngest brother Pierre-Didier Diderot and, their sister Angélique Diderot. Denis Diderot greatly admired his sister Denise, sometimes referring to her as "a female <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Diderot began his formal education at a <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Jesuit</a> college in Langres. In 1732 he received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Paris. He abandoned the idea of entering the clergy in 1735<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and, instead, decided to study at the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Law_Faculty" class="mw-redirect" title="Paris Law Faculty">Paris Law Faculty</a>. His study of law was short-lived, however, and in the early 1740s he decided to become a writer and translator.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of his refusal to enter one of the <a href="/wiki/Profession" title="Profession">learned professions</a>, he was disowned by his father and, for the next ten years, he lived a <a href="/wiki/Bohemianism" title="Bohemianism">bohemian</a> existence.<sup id="cite_ref-Arthur_Wilson_1972_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arthur_Wilson_1972-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1742 he formed a friendship with <a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>, whom he met while watching games of chess and drinking coffee at the <a href="/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_de_la_R%C3%A9gence" title="Café de la Régence">Café de la Régence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 1743, he further alienated his father by marrying <a href="/wiki/Anne-Antoinette_Diderot" title="Anne-Antoinette Diderot">Antoinette Champion</a> (1710–1796), a devout Catholic.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diderot senior considered the match inappropriate, given Champion's low social standing, poor education, fatherless status, and lack of a dowry. She was about three years older than Diderot. She bore Diderot one surviving child, a girl,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> named Angélique, after both Diderot's dead mother and his sister. The death in 1749 of his sister Angélique, a nun, in her convent, may have affected Diderot's opinion of religion. She is assumed to have been the inspiration for his novel about a nun, <i><a href="/wiki/La_Religieuse_(novel)" title="La Religieuse (novel)">La Religieuse</a></i>, in which he depicts a woman who is forced to enter a convent, where she suffers at the hands of her fellow nuns.<sup id="cite_ref-Arthur_Wilson_1972_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arthur_Wilson_1972-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Andrew_S._Curran_2019,_p._275_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Andrew_S._Curran_2019,_p._275-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Diderot was unfaithful to his wife, and had affairs with Anne-Gabrielle Babuty (who would marry and later divorce the artist <a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Greuze" title="Jean-Baptiste Greuze">Jean-Baptiste Greuze</a>), <a href="/wiki/Madeleine_de_Puisieux" title="Madeleine de Puisieux">Madeleine de Puisieux</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louise-Henriette_Volland" class="mw-redirect" title="Louise-Henriette Volland">Sophie Volland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mme_de_Maux" title="Mme de Maux">Mme de Maux</a> (Jeanne-Catherine de Maux), to whom he wrote numerous surviving letters and who eventually left him for a younger man.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 675–676">: 675–676 </span></sup> Diderot's letters to Sophie Volland are known for their candor and are regarded to be "among the literary treasures of the eighteenth century".<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 675">: 675 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_works">Early works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diderot's earliest works included a translation of <a href="/wiki/Temple_Stanyan" title="Temple Stanyan">Temple Stanyan</a>'s <i>History of Greece</i> (1743). In 1745, he published a translation of <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Ashley-Cooper,_3rd_Earl_of_Shaftesbury" title="Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury">Shaftesbury</a>'s <i>Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit</i>, to which he had added his own "reflections".<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 625">: 625 </span></sup> With two colleagues, <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Vincent_Toussaint" title="François-Vincent Toussaint">François-Vincent Toussaint</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marc-Antoine_Eidous" title="Marc-Antoine Eidous">Marc-Antoine Eidous</a>, he produced a translation of <a href="/wiki/Robert_James_(physician)" title="Robert James (physician)">Robert James</a>'s <i>Medicinal Dictionary</i> (1746–1748).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Philosophical_Thoughts"><i>Philosophical Thoughts</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Philosophical Thoughts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Philosophical_Thoughts" title="Philosophical Thoughts">Philosophical Thoughts</a></div> <p>In 1746, Diderot wrote his first original work: the <i><a href="/wiki/Philosophical_Thoughts" title="Philosophical Thoughts">Philosophical Thoughts</a></i> (<i>Pensées philosophiques</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-Furbank_1992_27_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furbank_1992_27-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this book, Diderot argued for a reconciliation of reason with feeling so as to establish harmony. According to Diderot, without feeling there is a detrimental effect on virtue, and no possibility of creating sublime work. However, since feeling without discipline can be destructive, reason is necessary to control feeling.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 625">: 625 </span></sup> </p><p>At the time Diderot wrote this book he was a deist. Hence there is a defense of <a href="/wiki/Deism" title="Deism">deism</a> in this book, and some arguments against atheism.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 625">: 625 </span></sup> The book also contains criticism of Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 626">: 626 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Skeptic's_Walk"><span id="The_Skeptic.27s_Walk"></span><i>The Skeptic's Walk</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Skeptic's Walk"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Skeptic%27s_Walk" title="The Skeptic's Walk">The Skeptic's Walk</a></div> <p>In 1747, Diderot wrote <i>The Skeptic's Walk</i> (<i>Promenade du sceptique</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-Fellows_1977_41_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fellows_1977_41-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in which a <a href="/wiki/Deist" class="mw-redirect" title="Deist">deist</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Pantheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Pantheist">pantheist</a> have a dialogue on the nature of divinity. The deist gives the <a href="/wiki/Teleological_argument" title="Teleological argument">argument from design</a>. The atheist says that the universe is better explained by physics, chemistry, matter, and motion. The pantheist says that the cosmic unity of mind and matter, which are co-eternal and comprise the universe, is God. This work remained unpublished until 1830. Accounts differ as to why. It was either because the local police, warned by the priests of another attack on Christianity, seized the manuscript, or because the authorities forced Diderot to give an undertaking that he would not publish this work.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 626">: 626 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Indiscreet_Jewels"><i>The Indiscreet Jewels</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Indiscreet Jewels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Indiscreet_Jewels" title="The Indiscreet Jewels">The Indiscreet Jewels</a></div> <p>In 1748, Diderot needed to raise money on short notice. His wife had born him a child, and his mistress <a href="/wiki/Madeleine_de_Puisieux" title="Madeleine de Puisieux">Madeleine de Puisieux</a> was making financial demands of him. At this time, Diderot had told his mistress that writing a novel was a trivial task, whereupon she challenged him to write one. As a result, Diderot produced <i><a href="/wiki/The_Indiscreet_Jewels" title="The Indiscreet Jewels">The Indiscreet Jewels</a></i> (<i>Les bijoux indiscrets</i>). The book is about the magical ring of a Sultan that induces any woman's "discreet jewels"<sup id="cite_ref-Furbank_1992_44_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furbank_1992_44-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to confess their sexual experiences when the ring is pointed at them.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 626–627">: 626–627 </span></sup> In all, the ring is pointed at thirty different women in the book—usually at a dinner or a social meeting—with the Sultan typically being visible to the woman.<sup id="cite_ref-RousseauPorter1990_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RousseauPorter1990-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 627">: 627 </span></sup> However, since the ring has the additional property of making its owner invisible when required, a few of the sexual experiences recounted are through direct observation with the Sultan making himself invisible and placing his person in the unsuspecting woman's boudoir.<sup id="cite_ref-RousseauPorter1990_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RousseauPorter1990-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Besides the bawdiness, there are several digressions into philosophy, music, and literature in the book. In one such philosophical digression, the Sultan has a dream in which he sees a child named "Experiment" growing bigger and stronger till the child demolishes an ancient temple named "Hypothesis". The book proved to be lucrative for Diderot even though it could only be sold clandestinely. It is Diderot's most published work.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 627">: 627 </span></sup> </p><p>The book is believed to draw upon the 1742 <a href="/wiki/Libertine_novel" title="Libertine novel">libertine novel</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Sofa:_A_Moral_Tale" title="The Sofa: A Moral Tale"><i>Le Sopha</i></a> by <a href="/wiki/Claude_Prosper_Jolyot_de_Cr%C3%A9billon" title="Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon">Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon</a> (Crébillon fils).<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 627">: 627 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Scientific_work">Scientific work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Scientific work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diderot kept writing on science in a desultory way all his life. The scientific work of which he was most proud was <i>Memoires sur differents sujets de mathematique</i> (1748). This work contains original ideas on <a href="/wiki/Acoustics" title="Acoustics">acoustics</a>, tension, <a href="/wiki/Air_resistance" class="mw-redirect" title="Air resistance">air resistance</a>, and "a project for a new organ" that could be played by all. Some of Diderot's scientific works were applauded by contemporary publications of his time such as <i>The Gentleman's Magazine</i>, the <i>Journal des savants</i>; and the Jesuit publication <i>Journal de Trevoux,</i> which invited more such work: "on the part of a man as clever and able as M. Diderot seems to be, of whom we should also observe that his style is as elegant, trenchant, and unaffected as it is lively and ingenious."<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 627">: 627 </span></sup> </p><p>On the unity of nature Diderot wrote, "Without the idea of the whole, philosophy is no more," and, "Everything changes; everything passes; nothing remains but the whole." He wrote of the temporal nature of molecules, and rejected <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embo%C3%AEtement" class="extiw" title="wikt:emboîtement">emboîtement</a></i>, the view that organisms are pre-formed in an infinite regression of non-changing germs. He saw minerals and species as part of a spectrum, and he was fascinated with <a href="/wiki/Hermaphroditism" class="mw-redirect" title="Hermaphroditism">hermaphroditism</a>. His answer to the universal attraction in <a href="/wiki/Corpuscularianism" title="Corpuscularianism">corpuscular</a> physics models was universal elasticity. His view of nature's flexibility foreshadows the discovery of <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a>, but it is not <a href="/wiki/Darwinistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Darwinistic">Darwinistic</a> in a strict sense.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Letter_on_the_Blind"><i>Letter on the Blind</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Letter on the Blind"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diderot's celebrated <i><a href="/wiki/Letter_on_the_Blind" title="Letter on the Blind">Letter on the Blind</a></i> (<i>Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient</i>) (1749) introduced him to the world as an original thinker.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorley1911_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorley1911-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The subject is a discussion of the relation between reasoning and the <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a> acquired through perception (the <a href="/wiki/Sense" title="Sense">five senses</a>). The title of his book also evoked some ironic doubt about who exactly were "the blind" under discussion. In the essay, blind English mathematician <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Saunderson" title="Nicholas Saunderson">Nicholas Saunderson</a><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> argues that, since knowledge derives from the senses, mathematics is the only form of knowledge that both he and a sighted person can agree on. It is suggested that the blind could be taught to read through their sense of touch. (A later essay, <i>Lettre sur les sourds et muets</i>, considered the case of a similar deprivation in the <a href="/wiki/Deaf" class="mw-redirect" title="Deaf">deaf</a> and <a href="/wiki/Speech_disorder" title="Speech disorder">mute</a>.) According to <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Israel" title="Jonathan Israel">Jonathan Israel</a>, what makes the <i>Lettre sur les aveugles</i> so remarkable, however, is its distinct, if undeveloped, presentation of the theory of <a href="/wiki/Genetic_variability" title="Genetic variability">variation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Natural_selection" title="Natural selection">natural selection</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>This powerful essay, for which <a href="/wiki/La_Mettrie" class="mw-redirect" title="La Mettrie">La Mettrie</a> expressed warm appreciation in 1751, revolves around a remarkable deathbed scene in which a dying blind philosopher, Saunderson, rejects the arguments of a <a href="/wiki/Deism" title="Deism">deist</a> clergyman who endeavours to win him around to a belief in a <a href="/wiki/Divine_Providence" class="mw-redirect" title="Divine Providence">providential</a> God during his last hours. Saunderson's arguments are those of a neo-<a href="/wiki/Spinoza" class="mw-redirect" title="Spinoza">Spinozist</a> <a href="/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)" title="Naturalism (philosophy)">Naturalist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fatalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatalist">fatalist</a>, using a sophisticated notion of the <a href="/wiki/Spontaneous_generation" title="Spontaneous generation">self-generation</a> and natural evolution of species without creation or supernatural intervention. The notion of <a href="/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism">"thinking matter"</a> is upheld and the "<a href="/wiki/Argument_from_design" class="mw-redirect" title="Argument from design">argument from design</a>" discarded (following La Mettrie) as hollow and unconvincing. The work appeared anonymously in Paris in June 1749, and was vigorously suppressed by the authorities. Diderot, who had been under police surveillance since 1747, was swiftly identified as the author, had his manuscripts confiscated, and he was imprisoned for some months, under a <i><a href="/wiki/Lettre_de_cachet" class="mw-redirect" title="Lettre de cachet">lettre de cachet</a></i>, on the outskirts of Paris, in the dungeons at <a href="/wiki/Vincennes" title="Vincennes">Vincennes</a> where he was visited almost daily by <a href="/wiki/Rousseau" class="mw-redirect" title="Rousseau">Rousseau</a>, at the time his closest and most assiduous ally.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a> wrote an enthusiastic letter to Diderot commending the <i>Lettre</i> and stating that he had held Diderot in high regard for a long time, to which Diderot sent a warm response. Soon after this, Diderot was arrested.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 629–630">: 629–630 </span></sup> </p><p>Science historian <a href="/wiki/Conway_Zirkle" title="Conway Zirkle">Conway Zirkle</a> has written that Diderot was an <a href="/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_thought" title="History of evolutionary thought">early evolutionary thinker</a> and noted that his passage that described <a href="/wiki/Natural_selection" title="Natural selection">natural selection</a> was "so clear and accurate that it almost seems that we would be forced to accept his conclusions as a logical necessity even in the absence of the evidence collected since his time."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Incarceration_and_release">Incarceration and release</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Incarceration and release"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Angered by public resentment over the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Aix-la-Chapelle_(1748)" title="Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)">Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle</a>, the government started incarcerating many of its critics. It was decided at this time to rein in Diderot. On 23 July 1749, the governor of the <a href="/wiki/Vincennes" title="Vincennes">Vincennes</a> fortress instructed the police to incarcerate Diderot, and the next day he was arrested and placed in solitary confinement at Vincennes. It was at this period that Rousseau visited Diderot in prison and came out a changed man, with newfound ideas about the disadvantages of knowledge, civilization, and Enlightenment – the so-called <i>illumination de Vincennes</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Diderot had been permitted to retain one book that he had in his possession at the time of his arrest, <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a></i>, which he read during his incarceration. He wrote notes and annotations on the book, using a toothpick as a pen, and ink that he made by scraping slate from the walls and mixing it with wine.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 630">: 630 </span></sup> </p><p>In August 1749, <a href="/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet" title="Émilie du Châtelet">Mme du Chatelet</a>, presumably at <a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a>'s behest, wrote to the governor of Vincennes, who was her relative, pleading for Diderot to be lodged more comfortably during his incarceration. The governor then offered Diderot access to the great halls of the Vincennes castle and the freedom to receive books and visitors providing he wrote a document of submission.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 630">: 630 </span></sup> On 13 August 1749, Diderot wrote to the governor: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I admit to you ... that the <i>Pensées</i>, the <i>Bijoux</i>, and the <i>Lettre sur les aveugles</i> are debaucheries of the mind that escaped from me; but I can ... promise you on my honor (and I do have honor) that they will be the last, and that they are the only ones ... As for those who have taken part in the publication of these works, nothing will be hidden from you. I shall depose verbally, in the depths [secrecy] of your heart, the names both of the publishers and the printers.<sup id="cite_ref-DurantDurant2011_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DurantDurant2011-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>On 20 August, Diderot was moved to a comfortable room in the fortess and allowed to meet visitors and walk within the gardens. On 23 August, Diderot signed another letter promising never to leave the prison without permission.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 631">: 631 </span></sup> On 3 November 1749, he was given his freedom.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 632">: 632 </span></sup> Subsequently, in 1750, he released the prospectus for the <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die,_ou_dictionnaire_raisonn%C3%A9_des_sciences,_des_arts_et_des_m%C3%A9tiers" class="mw-redirect" title="Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers">Encyclopédie</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 633">: 633 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Encyclopédie"><span id="Encyclop.C3.A9die"></span>Encyclopédie</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Encyclopédie"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die" title="Encyclopédie">Encyclopédie</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Genesis">Genesis</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Genesis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Encyclopedie_de_D%27Alembert_et_Diderot_-_Premiere_Page_-_ENC_1-NA5.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Encyclopedie_de_D%27Alembert_et_Diderot_-_Premiere_Page_-_ENC_1-NA5.jpg/220px-Encyclopedie_de_D%27Alembert_et_Diderot_-_Premiere_Page_-_ENC_1-NA5.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="360" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Encyclopedie_de_D%27Alembert_et_Diderot_-_Premiere_Page_-_ENC_1-NA5.jpg/330px-Encyclopedie_de_D%27Alembert_et_Diderot_-_Premiere_Page_-_ENC_1-NA5.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Encyclopedie_de_D%27Alembert_et_Diderot_-_Premiere_Page_-_ENC_1-NA5.jpg/440px-Encyclopedie_de_D%27Alembert_et_Diderot_-_Premiere_Page_-_ENC_1-NA5.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3133" data-file-height="5120" /></a><figcaption>Title page of the <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die" title="Encyclopédie">Encyclopédie</a></i></span></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_le_Breton" title="André le Breton">André le Breton</a>, a bookseller and printer, approached Diderot with a project for the publication of a translation of <a href="/wiki/Ephraim_Chambers" title="Ephraim Chambers">Ephraim Chambers</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Cyclopaedia,_or_Universal_Dictionary_of_Arts_and_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences">Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences</a></i> into French, first undertaken by the Englishman <a href="/wiki/John_Mills_(encyclopedist)" title="John Mills (encyclopedist)">John Mills</a>, and followed by the German <a href="/wiki/Gottfried_Sellius" title="Gottfried Sellius">Gottfried Sellius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diderot accepted the proposal, and transformed it. He persuaded Le Breton to publish a new work, which would consolidate ideas and knowledge from the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Letters" title="Republic of Letters">Republic of Letters</a>. The publishers found capital for a larger enterprise than they had first planned. <a href="/wiki/Jean_le_Rond_d%27Alembert" title="Jean le Rond d'Alembert">Jean le Rond d'Alembert</a> was persuaded to become Diderot's colleague, and permission was procured from the government. </p><p>In 1750, an elaborate prospectus announced the project, and the first volume was published in 1751.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This work was unorthodox and advanced for the time. Diderot stated that "An encyclopedia ought to make good the failure to execute such a project hitherto, and should encompass not only the fields already covered by the academies, but each and every branch of human knowledge." Comprehensive knowledge will give "the power to change men's common way of thinking."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work combined scholarship with information on trades. Diderot emphasized the abundance of knowledge within each subject area. Everyone would benefit from these insights. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Controversies">Controversies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diderot's work, however, was mired in controversy from the beginning; the project was suspended by the courts in 1752. Just as the second volume was completed, accusations arose regarding seditious content, concerning the editor's entries on religion and natural law. Diderot was detained and his house was searched for manuscripts for subsequent articles: but the search proved fruitless as no manuscripts could be found. They had been hidden in the house of an unlikely confederate—<a href="/wiki/Guillaume-Chr%C3%A9tien_de_Lamoignon_de_Malesherbes" title="Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes">Chretien de Lamoignon Malesherbes</a>, who originally ordered the search. Although Malesherbes was a staunch absolutist, and loyal to the monarchy—he was sympathetic to the literary project.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Along with his support, and that of other well-placed influential confederates, the project resumed. Diderot returned to his efforts only to be constantly embroiled in controversy. </p><p>These twenty years were to Diderot not merely a time of incessant drudgery, but harassing persecution and desertion of friends. The ecclesiastical party detested the <i>Encyclopédie</i>, in which they saw a rising stronghold for their philosophic enemies. By 1757, they could endure it no longer—the subscribers had grown from 2,000 to 4,000, a measure of the growth of the work in popular influence and power.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diderot wanted the <i>Encyclopédie</i> to give all the knowledge of the world to the people of France. However, the <i>Encyclopédie</i> threatened the governing social classes of France (aristocracy) because it took for granted the justice of <a href="/wiki/Religious_tolerance" title="Religious tolerance">religious tolerance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_thought" title="Freedom of thought">freedom of thought</a>, and the value of science and industry.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It asserted the doctrine that the main concern of the nation's government ought to be the nation's common people. It was believed that the <i>Encyclopédie</i> was the work of an organized band of conspirators against society, and that the dangerous ideas they held were made truly formidable by their open publication. In 1759, the <i>Encyclopédie</i> was formally suppressed.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The decree did not stop the work, which went on, but its difficulties increased by the necessity of being clandestine. <a href="/wiki/Jean_le_Rond_d%27Alembert" title="Jean le Rond d'Alembert">Jean le Rond d'Alembert</a> withdrew from the enterprise and other powerful colleagues, including <a href="/wiki/Anne_Robert_Jacques_Turgot,_Baron_de_Laune" class="mw-redirect" title="Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune">Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune</a>, declined to contribute further to a book that had acquired a bad reputation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorley1911_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorley1911-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Diderot's_contribution"><span id="Diderot.27s_contribution"></span>Diderot's contribution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Diderot's contribution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diderot was left to finish the task as best he could. He wrote approximately 7,000 articles,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> some very slight, but many of them laborious, comprehensive, and long. He damaged his eyesight correcting proofs and editing the manuscripts of less scrupulous contributors. He spent his days at workshops, mastering manufacturing processes, and his nights writing what he had learned during the day. He was incessantly harassed by threats of police raids. The last copies of the first volume were issued in 1765. </p><p>In 1764, when his immense work was drawing to an end, he encountered a crowning mortification: he discovered that the bookseller, Le Breton, fearing the government's displeasure, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages that he considered too dangerous. "He and his printing-house overseer", writes Furbank, "had worked in complete secrecy, and had moreover deliberately destroyed the author's original manuscript so that the damage could not be repaired."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The monument to which Diderot had given the labor of twenty long and oppressive years was irreparably mutilated and defaced.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was 12 years, in 1772, before the subscribers received the final 28 folio volumes of the <i>Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers</i> since the first volume had been published.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (August 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>When Diderot's work on the <i>Encyclopédie</i> project came to an end in 1765, he expressed concerns to his friends that the twenty-five years he had spent on the project had been wasted.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mature_works">Mature works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Mature works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although the <i>Encyclopédie</i> was Diderot's most monumental product, he was the author of many other works that sowed nearly every intellectual field with new and creative ideas.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diderot's writing ranges from a graceful trifle like the <i>Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre</i> (<i>Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown</i>) up to the heady <i><a href="/wiki/D%27Alembert%27s_Dream" title="D'Alembert's Dream">D'Alembert's Dream</a></i> (<i>Le Rêve de d'Alembert</i>) (composed 1769), a philosophical dialogue in which he plunges into the depths of the controversy as to the ultimate constitution of <a href="/wiki/Matter" title="Matter">matter</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Meaning_of_life_(philosophy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Meaning of life (philosophy)">meaning of life</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Jacques_le_fataliste" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacques le fataliste">Jacques le fataliste</a></i> (written between 1765 and 1780, but not published until 1792 in German and 1796 in French) is similar to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy,_Gentleman" title="The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman">Tristram Shandy</a></i> and <i>The Sentimental Journey</i> in its challenge to the conventional novel's structure and content.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="La_Religieuse_(The_Nun_or_Memoirs_of_a_Nun)"><span id="La_Religieuse_.28The_Nun_or_Memoirs_of_a_Nun.29"></span><i>La Religieuse</i> (<i>The Nun</i> or <i>Memoirs of a Nun</i>)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: La Religieuse (The Nun or Memoirs of a Nun)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/La_Religieuse_(novel)" title="La Religieuse (novel)">La Religieuse</a></i> was a novel that claimed to show the corruption of the Catholic Church's institutions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Plot">Plot</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The novel began not as a work for literary consumption, but as an elaborate practical joke aimed at luring the <a href="/wiki/Marc-Antoine-Nicolas_de_Croismare" title="Marc-Antoine-Nicolas de Croismare">Marquis de Croismare</a>, a companion of Diderot's, back to Paris. <i>The Nun</i> is set in the 18th century, that is, contemporary France. Suzanne Simonin is an intelligent and sensitive sixteen-year-old French girl who is forced against her will into a Catholic convent by her parents. Suzanne's parents initially inform her that she is being sent to the convent for financial reasons. However, while in the convent, she learns that she is actually there because she is an illegitimate child, as her mother committed adultery. By sending Suzanne to the convent, her mother thought she could make amends for her sins by using her daughter as a sacrificial offering. </p><p>At the convent, Suzanne suffers humiliation, harassment and violence because she refuses to make the vows of the religious community. She eventually finds companionship with the Mother Superior, Sister de Moni, who pities Suzanne's anguish. After Sister de Moni's death, the new Mother Superior, Sister Sainte-Christine, does not share the same empathy for Suzanne that her predecessor had, blaming Suzanne for the death of Sister de Moni. Suzanne is physically and mentally harassed by Sister Sainte-Christine, almost to the point of death. </p><p>Suzanne contacts her lawyer, Monsieur Manouri, who attempts to legally free her from her vows. Manouri manages to have Suzanne transferred to another convent, Sainte-Eutrope. At the new convent, the Mother Superior is revealed to be a lesbian, and she grows affectionate towards Suzanne. The Mother Superior attempts to seduce Suzanne, but her innocence and chastity eventually drives the Mother Superior to insanity, leading to her death. </p><p>Suzanne escapes the Sainte-Eutrope convent using the help of a priest. Following her liberation, she lives in fear of being captured and taken back to the convent as she awaits the help from Diderot's friend the <a href="/wiki/Marc-Antoine-Nicolas_de_Croismare" title="Marc-Antoine-Nicolas de Croismare">Marquis de Croismare</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Analysis">Analysis</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Analysis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diderot's novel was not aimed at condemning Christianity as such but at criticizing cloistered religious life.<sup id="cite_ref-Andrew_S._Curran_2019,_p._275_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Andrew_S._Curran_2019,_p._275-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Diderot's telling, some critics have claimed,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (October 2024)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> the Church is depicted as fostering a hierarchical society, exemplified in the power dynamic between the Mother Superior and the girls in the convent, forced as they are against their will to take the vows and endure what is to them the intolerable life of the convent. On this view, the subjection of the unwilling young women to convent life dehumanized them by repressing their sexuality. Moreover, their plight would have been all the more oppressive since it should be remembered that in France at this period, religious vows were recognized, regulated and enforced not only by the Church but also by the civil authorities. Some broaden their interpretation to suggest that Diderot was out to expose more general victimization of women by the Catholic Church, that forced them to accept the fate imposed upon them by a hierarchical society.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Posthumous_publication">Posthumous publication</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Posthumous publication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although <i>The Nun</i> was completed in about 1780, the work was not published until 1796, after Diderot's death. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rameau's_Nephew"><span id="Rameau.27s_Nephew"></span><i>Rameau's Nephew</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Rameau's Nephew"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The dialogue <i><a href="/wiki/Rameau%27s_Nephew" title="Rameau's Nephew">Rameau's Nephew</a></i> (French: <i>Le Neveu de Rameau</i>) is a "farce-tragedy" reminiscent of the <i>Satires</i> of <a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, a favorite classical author of Diderot's whose lines "Vertumnis, quotquot sunt, natus iniquis" ("Born under (the influence of) the unfavorable (gods) Vertumnuses, however many they are") appear as epigraph. According to Nicholas Cronk, <i>Rameau's Nephew</i> is "arguably the greatest work of the French Enlightenment's greatest writer."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Un_d%C3%AEner_de_philosophes.Jean_Huber.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Un_d%C3%AEner_de_philosophes.Jean_Huber.jpg/300px-Un_d%C3%AEner_de_philosophes.Jean_Huber.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="204" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Un_d%C3%AEner_de_philosophes.Jean_Huber.jpg/450px-Un_d%C3%AEner_de_philosophes.Jean_Huber.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Un_d%C3%AEner_de_philosophes.Jean_Huber.jpg/600px-Un_d%C3%AEner_de_philosophes.Jean_Huber.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="476" /></a><figcaption><i>Un dîner de philosophes</i> painted by <a href="/wiki/Jean_Huber" title="Jean Huber">Jean Huber</a>. Denis Diderot is the second from the right (seated).</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The narrator in the book recounts a conversation with <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Rameau" class="extiw" title="fr:Jean-François Rameau">Jean-François Rameau</a>, nephew of the famous composer <a href="/wiki/Jean-Philippe_Rameau" title="Jean-Philippe Rameau">Jean-Philippe Rameau</a>. The nephew composes and teaches music with some success but feels disadvantaged by his name and is jealous of his uncle. Eventually he sinks into an indolent and debauched state. After his wife's death, he loses all self-esteem and his brusque manners result in him being ostracized by former friends. A character profile of the nephew is now sketched by Diderot: a man who was once wealthy and comfortable with a pretty wife, who is now living in poverty and decadence, shunned by his friends. And yet this man retains enough of his past to analyze his despondency philosophically and maintains his sense of humor. Essentially he believes in nothing—not in religion, nor in morality; nor in the Roussean view about nature being better than civilization since in his opinion every species in nature consumes one another.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 660">: 660 </span></sup> He views the same process at work in the economic world where men consume each other through the legal system.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 660–661">: 660–661 </span></sup> The wise man, according to the nephew, will consequently practice hedonism: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Hurrah for wisdom and philosophy!—the wisdom of Solomon: to drink good wines, gorge on choice foods, tumble pretty women, sleep on downy beds; outside of that, all is vanity.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 661">: 661 </span></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The dialogue ends with Diderot calling the nephew a wastrel, a coward, and a glutton devoid of spiritual values to which the nephew replies: "I believe you are right."<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 661">: 661 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Analysis_2">Analysis</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Analysis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diderot's intention in writing the dialogue—whether as a satire on contemporary manners, a reduction of the theory of <a href="/wiki/Individualism" title="Individualism">self-interest</a> to an absurdity, the application of <a href="/wiki/Irony" title="Irony">irony</a> to the ethics of ordinary convention, a mere setting for a discussion about music, or a vigorous dramatic sketch of a parasite and a human original—is disputed. In political terms it explores "the bipolarisation of the social classes under absolute monarchy," and insofar as its protagonist demonstrates how the servant often manipulates the master, <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Neveu_de_Rameau" class="mw-redirect" title="Le Neveu de Rameau">Le Neveu de Rameau</a></i> can be seen to anticipate Hegel's <a href="/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_dialectic" class="mw-redirect" title="Master–slave dialectic">master–slave dialectic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Posthumous_publication_2">Posthumous publication</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Posthumous publication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The publication history of the <i>Nephew</i> is circuitous. Written between 1761 and 1774, Diderot never saw the work through to publication during his lifetime, and apparently did not even share it with his friends. After Diderot's death, a copy of the text reached <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Schiller</a>, who gave it to <a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Goethe</a>, who, in 1805, translated the work into German.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorley1911_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorley1911-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Goethe's translation entered France, and was retranslated into French in 1821. Another copy of the text was published in 1823, but it had been expurgated by Diderot's daughter prior to publication. The original manuscript was only found in 1891.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 659">: 659 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Visual_arts">Visual arts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Visual arts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diderot's most intimate friend was the <a href="/wiki/Philologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Philologist">philologist</a> <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Melchior,_Baron_von_Grimm" title="Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm">Friedrich Melchior Grimm</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 677">: 677 </span></sup> They were brought together by their common friend at that time, <a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 632">: 632 </span></sup> In 1753, Grimm began writing a newsletter, the <i>La Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique</i>, which he would send to various high personages in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-Jacobs_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jacobs-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1759, Grimm asked Diderot to report on the biennial art exhibitions in the <a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre</a> for the <i>Correspondance</i>. Diderot reported on the <a href="/wiki/Salon_(Paris)" title="Salon (Paris)">Salons</a> between 1759 and 1771 and again in 1775 and 1781.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 666–687">: 666–687 </span></sup> Diderot's reports would become "the most celebrated contributions to La Correspondance."<sup id="cite_ref-Jacobs_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jacobs-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Charles_Augustin_Sainte-Beuve" title="Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve">Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve</a>, Diderot's reports initiated the French into a new way of laughing, and introduced people to the mystery and purport of colour by ideas. "Before Diderot", <a href="/wiki/Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl" title="Germaine de Staël">Anne Louise Germaine de Staël</a> wrote, "I had never seen anything in pictures except dull and lifeless colours; it was his imagination that gave them relief and life, and it is almost a new sense for which I am indebted to his genius".<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Diderot had appended an <i>Essai sur la peinture</i> to his report on the 1765 Salon in which he expressed his views on artistic beauty. <a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Goethe</a> described the <i>Essai sur la peinture</i> as "a magnificent work; it speaks even more usefully to the poet than to the painter, though for the painter too it is a torch of blazing illumination".<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 668">: 668 </span></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Greuze" title="Jean-Baptiste Greuze">Jean-Baptiste Greuze</a> (1725–1805) was Diderot's favorite contemporary artist.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diderot appreciated Greuze's sentimentality, and more particularly Greuze's portrayals of his wife who had once been Diderot's mistress.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 668">: 668 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Theatre">Theatre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diderot wrote sentimental plays, <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Fils_naturel" title="Le Fils naturel">Le Fils naturel</a></i> (1757) and <i><a href="/wiki/Le_P%C3%A8re_de_famille" title="Le Père de famille">Le Père de famille</a></i> (1758), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including "Les Entretiens sur <i>Le Fils Naturel</i>" (Conversations on <i>The Natural Son</i>), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the 'serious genre', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage. In 1758, Diderot introduced the concept of the <a href="/wiki/Fourth_wall" title="Fourth wall">fourth wall</a>, the imaginary "wall" at the front of the stage in a traditional three-walled <a href="/wiki/Box_set_(theatre)" title="Box set (theatre)">box set</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Proscenium" title="Proscenium">proscenium</a> theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play.<sup id="cite_ref-Bell_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bell-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wallis_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wallis-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Abelman_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Abelman-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also wrote <i><a href="/wiki/Paradox_of_the_Actor" title="Paradox of the Actor">Paradoxe sur le comédien</a></i> (<i>Paradox of the Actor</i>), written between 1770 and 1778 but first published after his death in 1830, which is a dramatic essay elucidating a theory of acting in which it is argued that great actors do not experience the emotions they are displaying.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That essay is also of note for being where the term <i><a href="/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier" title="L'esprit de l'escalier">l'esprit de l'escalier</a></i> (or <i><a href="/wiki/L%27esprit_d%27escalier" class="mw-redirect" title="L'esprit d'escalier">l'esprit d'escalier</a></i>) comes from. It is a French term used in English for the predicament of thinking of the perfect reply too late. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Diderot_and_Catherine_the_Great">Diderot and Catherine the Great</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Diderot and Catherine the Great"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Journey_to_Russia">Journey to Russia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Journey to Russia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Diderot%27s_travel_from_Paris_to_Saint_Petersburg_in_1773-1774_map-en.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Diderot%27s_travel_from_Paris_to_Saint_Petersburg_in_1773-1774_map-en.svg/300px-Diderot%27s_travel_from_Paris_to_Saint_Petersburg_in_1773-1774_map-en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="208" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Diderot%27s_travel_from_Paris_to_Saint_Petersburg_in_1773-1774_map-en.svg/450px-Diderot%27s_travel_from_Paris_to_Saint_Petersburg_in_1773-1774_map-en.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Diderot%27s_travel_from_Paris_to_Saint_Petersburg_in_1773-1774_map-en.svg/600px-Diderot%27s_travel_from_Paris_to_Saint_Petersburg_in_1773-1774_map-en.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1240" data-file-height="860" /></a><figcaption>Diderot's travel from Paris to Saint Petersburg in 1773–1774. The <b>blue line</b> marks the outward from 3 June 1773 until 9 October 1773, and the <b>red line</b> marks the return journey 5 March 1774 to 21 October 1774.</figcaption></figure> <p>When the Russian Empress <a href="/wiki/Catherine_the_Great" title="Catherine the Great">Catherine the Great</a> heard that Diderot was in need of money, she arranged to buy his library and appoint him caretaker of it until his death, at a salary of 1,000 livres per year. She even paid him 50 years salary in advance.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Diderot hated traveling,<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 674">: 674 </span></sup> he was obliged to visit her.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 448">: 448 </span></sup> </p><p>On 9 October 1773, he reached Saint Petersburg, met Catherine the next day and they had several discussions on various subjects. During his five-month stay at her court, he met her almost every day.<sup id="cite_ref-RaR_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RaR-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 448–449">: 448–449 </span></sup> During these conversations, he would later state, they spoke 'man to man'.<sup id="cite_ref-RaR_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RaR-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 448">: 448 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He would occasionally make his point by slapping her thighs. In a letter to <a href="/wiki/Marie_Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Rodet_Geoffrin" class="mw-redirect" title="Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin">Madame Geoffrin</a>, Catherine wrote: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Your Diderot is an extraordinary man. I emerge from interviews with him with my thighs bruised and quite black. I have been obliged to put a table between us to protect myself and my members.<sup id="cite_ref-RaR_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RaR-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 448">: 448 </span></sup></p></blockquote> <p>One of the topics discussed was Diderot's ideas about how to transform Russia into a utopia. In a letter to <a href="/wiki/Louis_Philippe,_comte_de_S%C3%A9gur" title="Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur">Comte de Ségur</a>, the Empress wrote that if she followed Diderot's advice, chaos would ensue in her kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-RaR_42-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RaR-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 448">: 448 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Back_in_France">Back in France</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Back in France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When returning, Diderot asked the Empress for 1,500 rubles as reimbursement for his trip. She gave him 3,000 rubles, an expensive ring, and an officer to escort him back to Paris. He wrote a eulogy in her honor upon reaching Paris.<sup id="cite_ref-RaR_42-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RaR-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 449">: 449 </span></sup> </p><p>In 1766, when Catherine heard that Diderot had not received his annual fee for editing the <i>Encyclopédie</i> (an important source of income for the philosopher), she arranged for him to receive a massive sum of 50,000 livres as an advance for his services as her librarian.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 1784, upon hearing that Diderot was in poor health, Catherine arranged for him to move into a luxurious suite in the <i>Rue de Richelieu</i>. Diderot died two weeks after moving there—on 31 July 1784.<sup id="cite_ref-RaR_42-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RaR-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 893">: 893 </span></sup> </p><p>Among Diderot's last works were notes "On the Instructions of her Imperial Majesty...for the Drawing up of Laws". This commentary on Russia included replies to some arguments Catherine had made in the <a href="/wiki/Nakaz" title="Nakaz">Nakaz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RaR_42-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RaR-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 449">: 449 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Furbank_1992_393_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furbank_1992_393-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diderot wrote that Catherine was certainly despotic, due to circumstances and training, but was not inherently tyrannical. Thus, if she wished to destroy despotism in Russia, she should abdicate her throne and destroy anyone who tries to revive the monarchy.<sup id="cite_ref-Furbank_1992_393_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furbank_1992_393-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She should publicly declare that "there is no true sovereign other than the nation, and there can be no true legislator other than the people."<sup id="cite_ref-Furbank_1992_394_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furbank_1992_394-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She should create a new Russian legal code establishing an independent legal framework and starting with the text: "We the people, and we the sovereign of this people, swear conjointly these laws, by which we are judged equally."<sup id="cite_ref-Furbank_1992_394_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furbank_1992_394-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <i>Nakaz</i>, Catherine had written: "It is for legislation to follow the spirit of the nation."<sup id="cite_ref-Furbank_1992_394_46-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furbank_1992_394-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diderot's rebuttal stated that it is for legislation to <i>make</i> the spirit of the nation. For instance, he argued, it is not appropriate to make public executions unnecessarily horrific.<sup id="cite_ref-Furbank_1992_394-5_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furbank_1992_394-5-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ultimately, Diderot decided not to send these notes to Catherine; however, they were delivered to her with his other papers after he died. When she read them, she was furious and commented that they were an incoherent gibberish devoid of prudence, insight, and verisimilitude.<sup id="cite_ref-RaR_42-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RaR-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 449">: 449 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Furbank_1992_395_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furbank_1992_395-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philosophy">Philosophy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Philosophy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Denis_Diderot_portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Denis_Diderot_portrait.jpg/220px-Denis_Diderot_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="261" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Denis_Diderot_portrait.jpg/330px-Denis_Diderot_portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Denis_Diderot_portrait.jpg/440px-Denis_Diderot_portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="497" data-file-height="590" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Levitzky" title="Dmitry Levitzky">Dmitry Levitzky</a>, <i>Denis Diderot</i>, 1773, <a href="/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Art_et_d%27Histoire_(Geneva)" title="Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva)">Musée d'Art et d'Histoire</a>, Geneva</figcaption></figure> <p>In his youth, Diderot was originally a follower of <a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Deism" title="Deism">deist</a> <i>Anglomanie</i>, but gradually moved away from this line of thought towards <a href="/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism">materialism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheism</a>, a move which was finally realised in 1747 in the philosophical debate in the second part of his <i><a href="/wiki/The_Skeptic%27s_Walk" title="The Skeptic's Walk">The Skeptic's Walk</a></i> (1747).<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diderot opposed mysticism and occultism, which were highly prevalent in France at the time he wrote, and believed religious truth claims must fall under the domain of reason, not mystical experience or esoteric secrets. However, Diderot showed some interest in the work of <a href="/wiki/Paracelsus" title="Paracelsus">Paracelsus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was "a philosopher in whom all the contradictions of the time struggle with one another" (<a href="/wiki/Johann_Karl_Friedrich_Rosenkranz" class="mw-redirect" title="Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz">Rosenkranz</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorley1911_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorley1911-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> In his 1754 book <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_interpretation_of_Nature" title="On the interpretation of Nature">On the interpretation of Nature</a></i>, Diderot expounded on his views about nature, evolution, materialism, mathematics, and experimental science.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 651–652">: 651–652 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Furbank_1992_109-115_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furbank_1992_109-115-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is speculated that Diderot may have contributed to his friend <a href="/wiki/Baron_d%27Holbach" title="Baron d'Holbach">Baron d'Holbach</a>'s 1770 book <i><a href="/wiki/The_System_of_Nature" title="The System of Nature">The System of Nature</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorley1911_21-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorley1911-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diderot had enthusiastically endorsed the book stating that: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>What I like is a philosophy clear, definite, and frank, such as you have in the <i>System of Nature</i>. The author is not an atheist on one page and a deist on another. His philosophy is all of one piece.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 700">: 700 </span></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In conceiving the <i>Encyclopédie</i>, Diderot had thought of the work as a fight on behalf of posterity and had expressed confidence that posterity would be grateful for his effort. According to Diderot, "posterity is for the philosopher what the 'other world' is for the man of religion."<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 641">: 641 </span></sup> </p><p>According to Andrew S. Curran, the main questions of Diderot's thought are the following :<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Why be moral in a world without god?</li> <li>How should we appreciate art?</li> <li>What are we and where do we come from?</li> <li>What are sex and love?</li> <li>How can a philosopher intervene in political affairs?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_burial">Death and burial</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Death and burial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diderot died of <a href="/wiki/Pulmonary_embolism" title="Pulmonary embolism">pulmonary thrombosis</a> in Paris on 31 July 1784, and was buried in the city's <a href="/wiki/Saint-Roch,_Paris" title="Saint-Roch, Paris">Église Saint-Roch</a>. His heirs sent his vast library to Catherine II, who had it deposited at the <a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Russia" title="National Library of Russia">National Library of Russia</a>. He has several times been denied burial in the <a href="/wiki/Panth%C3%A9on,_Paris" class="mw-redirect" title="Panthéon, Paris">Panthéon</a> with other French notables.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Diderot's remains were unearthed by <a href="/wiki/Grave_robbers" class="mw-redirect" title="Grave robbers">grave robbers</a> in 1793, leaving his corpse on the church's floor. His remains were then presumably transferred to a mass grave by the authorities.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Appreciation_and_influence">Appreciation and influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Appreciation and influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jean-Simon_Berth%C3%A9lemy_-_Bildnis_eines_Herrn_mit_der_B%C3%BCste_des_Denis_Diderot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Jean-Simon_Berth%C3%A9lemy_-_Bildnis_eines_Herrn_mit_der_B%C3%BCste_des_Denis_Diderot.jpg/220px-Jean-Simon_Berth%C3%A9lemy_-_Bildnis_eines_Herrn_mit_der_B%C3%BCste_des_Denis_Diderot.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="279" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Jean-Simon_Berth%C3%A9lemy_-_Bildnis_eines_Herrn_mit_der_B%C3%BCste_des_Denis_Diderot.jpg/330px-Jean-Simon_Berth%C3%A9lemy_-_Bildnis_eines_Herrn_mit_der_B%C3%BCste_des_Denis_Diderot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Jean-Simon_Berth%C3%A9lemy_-_Bildnis_eines_Herrn_mit_der_B%C3%BCste_des_Denis_Diderot.jpg/440px-Jean-Simon_Berth%C3%A9lemy_-_Bildnis_eines_Herrn_mit_der_B%C3%BCste_des_Denis_Diderot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1679" data-file-height="2126" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Jean-Simon_Berth%C3%A9lemy" title="Jean-Simon Berthélemy">Jean-Simon Berthélemy</a>, Young man admiring Denis Diderot's bust</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Marmontel" title="Jean-François Marmontel">Marmontel</a> and <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Henri_Meister" class="extiw" title="fr:Jacques-Henri Meister">Henri Meister</a> commented on the great pleasure of having intellectual conversations with Diderot.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 678">: 678 </span></sup> <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Morellet" title="André Morellet">Morellet</a>, a regular attendee at <a href="/wiki/Baron_d%27Holbach#D'Holbach's_salon" title="Baron d'Holbach">D'Holbach's salon</a>, wrote: "It is there that I heard...Diderot treat questions of philosophy, art, or literature, and by his wealth of expression, fluency, and inspired appearance, hold our attention for a long stretch of time."<sup id="cite_ref-Wilson_1972_175_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wilson_1972_175-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diderot's contemporary, and rival, <a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean Jacques Rousseau</a> wrote in his <i>Confessions</i> that after a few centuries Diderot would be accorded as much respect by posterity as was given to Plato and Aristotle.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 678">: 678 </span></sup> In Germany, <a href="/wiki/Goethe" class="mw-redirect" title="Goethe">Goethe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Schiller" class="mw-redirect" title="Schiller">Schiller</a>, and Lessing<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 679">: 679 </span></sup> expressed admiration for Diderot's writings, Goethe pronouncing Diderot's <i><a href="/wiki/Rameau%27s_Nephew" title="Rameau's Nephew">Rameau's Nephew</a></i> to be "the classical work of an outstanding man" and that "Diderot is Diderot, a unique individual; whoever carps at him and his affairs is a philistine."<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 659">: 659 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As atheism fell out of favor during the French Revolution, Diderot was vilified and considered responsible for the excessive persecution of the clergy.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the next century, Diderot was admired by <a href="/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac" title="Honoré de Balzac">Balzac</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix" title="Eugène Delacroix">Delacroix</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stendhal" title="Stendhal">Stendhal</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Zola" title="Émile Zola">Zola</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Schopenhauer" class="mw-redirect" title="Schopenhauer">Schopenhauer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Auguste_Comte" title="Auguste Comte">Comte</a>, Diderot was the foremost intellectual in an exciting age.<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 679">: 679 </span></sup> Historian <a href="/wiki/Jules_Michelet" title="Jules Michelet">Michelet</a> described him as "the true Prometheus" and stated that Diderot's ideas would continue to remain influential long into the future. <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a> chose Diderot as his "favourite prose-writer."<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_tributes">Modern tributes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Modern tributes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Diderot-statue.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Diderot-statue.jpg/220px-Diderot-statue.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Diderot-statue.jpg/330px-Diderot-statue.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Diderot-statue.jpg/440px-Diderot-statue.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Monument to Denis Diderot in Paris, <a href="/wiki/6th_arrondissement_of_Paris" title="6th arrondissement of Paris">6th arrondissement</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Jean_Gautherin" title="Jean Gautherin">Jean Gautherin</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Otis_Fellows" title="Otis Fellows">Otis Fellows</a> and Norman Torrey have described Diderot as "the most interesting and provocative figure of the French eighteenth century."<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1993, American writer Cathleen Schine published <i>Rameau's Niece</i>, a satire of academic life in New York that took as its premise a woman's research into an (imagined) 18th-century pornographic parody of Diderot's <i>Rameau's Nephew</i>. The book was praised by Michiko Kakutani in the <i>New York Times</i> as "a nimble philosophical satire of the academic mind" and "an enchanting comedy of modern manners."<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>French author Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt wrote a play titled <i>Le Libertin</i> (<i>The Libertine</i>) which imagines a day in Diderot's life including a fictional sitting for a woman painter which becomes sexually charged but is interrupted by the demands of editing the <i>Encyclopédie</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was first staged at Paris' Théâtre Montparnasse in 1997 starring Bernard Giraudeau as Diderot and Christiane Cohendy as Madame Therbouche and was well received by critics.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013, the 300th anniversary of Diderot's birth, his hometown of Langres held a series of events in his honor and produced an audio tour of the town highlighting places that were part of Diderot's past, including the remains of the convent where his sister Angélique took her vows.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 6 October 2013, a museum of the Enlightenment focusing on Diderot's contributions to the movement, the <a href="/wiki/Denis_Diderot_House_Of_Enlightenment_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Denis Diderot House Of Enlightenment (France)">Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot</a>, was inaugurated in Langres.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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revised in 1770 and in the early 1780s; the novel was first published as a volume posthumously in 1796).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Le_neveu_de_Rameau" class="mw-redirect" title="Le neveu de Rameau">Le neveu de Rameau</a></i>, dialogue (written between 1761 and 1774).<sup id="cite_ref-:1_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Lettre sur le commerce de la librairie</i> (1763)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jacques_le_fataliste_et_son_ma%C3%AEtre" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacques le fataliste et son maître">Jacques le fataliste et son maître</a></i>, novel (written between 1765 and 1780; first published posthumously in 1796)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mystification_(Diderot)" title="Mystification (Diderot)">Mystification ou l’histoire des portraits</a></i> (1768)</li> <li><i>Entretien entre D'Alembert et Diderot</i> (1769)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Le_r%C3%AAve_de_D%27Alembert" class="mw-redirect" title="Le rêve de D'Alembert">Le rêve de D'Alembert</a></i>, dialogue (1769)</li> <li><i>Suite de l'entretien entre D'Alembert et Diderot</i> (1769)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paradox_of_the_Actor" title="Paradox of the Actor">Paradoxe sur le comédien</a></i> (written between 1770 and 1778; first published posthumously in 1830)</li> <li><i>Apologie de l'abbé Galiani</i> (1770)</li> <li><i>Principes philosophiques sur la matière et le mouvement</i>, essai (1770)</li> <li><i>Entretien d'un père avec ses enfants</i> (1771)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ceci_n%27est_pas_un_conte" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceci n'est pas un conte">Ceci n'est pas un conte</a></i>, story (1772)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Madame_de_La_Carli%C3%A8re" title="Madame de La Carlière">Madame de La Carlière</a></i>, short story and moral fable, (1772)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Suppl%C3%A9ment_au_voyage_de_Bougainville" title="Supplément au voyage de Bougainville">Supplément au voyage de Bougainville</a></i> (1772)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Histoire_des_deux_Indes" title="Histoire des deux Indes">Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes</a></i>, in collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Guillaume_Thomas_Fran%C3%A7ois_Raynal" title="Guillaume Thomas François Raynal">Raynal</a> (1772–1781)<sup id="cite_ref-WDL_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDL-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Voyage en Hollande</i> (1773)</li> <li><i>Éléments de physiologie</i> (1773–1774)</li> <li><i>Réfutation d'Helvétius</i> (1774)</li> <li><i>Observations sur le <a href="/wiki/Nakaz" title="Nakaz">Nakaz</a></i> (1774)</li> <li><i>Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron</i> (1778)</li> <li><i>Est-il Bon? Est-il méchant?</i> (1781)</li> <li><i>Lettre apologétique de l'abbé Raynal à Monsieur Grimm</i> (1781)</li> <li><i>Aux insurgents d'Amérique</i> (1782)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Contributions_to_liberal_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Contributions to liberal theory">Contributions to liberal theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diderot_effect" title="Diderot effect">Diderot effect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Encyclopedist" class="mw-redirect" title="Encyclopedist">Encyclopedist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9distes" title="Encyclopédistes">Encyclopédistes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonhard_Euler" title="Leonhard Euler">Euler, Leonhard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_liberal_theorists" title="List of liberal theorists">List of liberal theorists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Society_of_the_Friends_of_Truth" title="Society of the Friends of Truth">Society of the Friends of Truth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paris_Diderot_University" title="Paris Diderot University">Paris Diderot University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denis_Diderot_House_of_Enlightenment" title="Denis Diderot House of Enlightenment">Denis Diderot House of Enlightenment</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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id="cite_ref-Furbank_1992_44_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furbank_1992_44-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This contradicts the view of <a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a> with regard to the use of emotion in <a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetoric</a>: <i>Si vis me flere, primium tibi flendum est</i> (If you wish me to weep you must first weep yourself).<sup id="cite_ref-AoV_1-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AoV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 624">: 624 </span></sup> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Diderot later narrated the following conversation as having taken place: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p><i>Catherine</i>: "You have a hot head, and I have one too. We interrupt each other, we do not hear what the other one says, and so we say stupid things." </p><p><i>Diderot</i>: "With this difference, that when I interrupt your Majesty, I commit a great impertinence." </p> <p><i>Catherine</i>: "No, between men there is no such thing as impertinence."<sup id="cite_ref-Furbank_1992_379_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furbank_1992_379-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> </span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap 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"<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Diderot,_Denis" class="extiw" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Diderot, Denis">Diderot, Denis</a>". In <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a> (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 204–206.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Diderot%2C+Denis&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=204-206&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rft.aulast=Morley&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADenis+Diderot" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Arthur_Wilson_1972-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Arthur_Wilson_1972_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Arthur_Wilson_1972_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Arthur_Wilson_1972_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Arthur Wilson, <i>Diderot</i> (New York: Oxford, 1972).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVerzaal2013" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Verzaal, Elly (25 October 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141021144239/http://blog.kb.nl/diderot-op-de-kneuterdijk-1">"Diderot op de Kneuterdijk (1)"</a> [Diderot on Kneuterdijk (1)] (in Dutch). <a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="National Library of the Netherlands">National Library of the Netherlands</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.kb.nl/diderot-op-de-kneuterdijk-1">the original</a> on 21 October 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Diderot+op+de+Kneuterdijk+%281%29&rft.pub=National+Library+of+the+Netherlands&rft.date=2013-10-25&rft.aulast=Verzaal&rft.aufirst=Elly&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.kb.nl%2Fdiderot-op-de-kneuterdijk-1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADenis+Diderot" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Norman Hampson. <i>The Enlightenment.</i> 1968. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982. p. 128</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGopnik" class="citation magazine cs1">Gopnik, Adam. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/how-the-man-of-reason-got-radicalized?mbid=synd_digg">"How the Man of Reason got Radicalized"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 February</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=How+the+Man+of+Reason+got+Radicalized&rft.aulast=Gopnik&rft.aufirst=Adam&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2019%2F03%2F04%2Fhow-the-man-of-reason-got-radicalized%3Fmbid%3Dsynd_digg&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADenis+Diderot" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Arthur M. Wilson. <i>Diderot: The Testing Years, 1713–1759.</i> New York: Oxford University Press, 1957, p. 14 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/stream/diderotthetestin001232mbp/diderotthetestin001232mbp_djvu.txt">[1]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCurran2019" class="citation book cs1">Curran, Andrew (2019). <i>Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely</i>. Other Press. p. 319. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-159051-670-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-159051-670-6"><bdi>978-159051-670-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Diderot+and+the+Art+of+Thinking+Freely&rft.pages=319&rft.pub=Other+Press&rft.date=2019&rft.isbn=978-159051-670-6&rft.aulast=Curran&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADenis+Diderot" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Andrew S. 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Accessed 24 September 2006.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Furbank_1992_27-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Furbank_1992_27_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFP.N._Furbank1992" class="citation book cs1">P.N. Furbank (1992). <i>Diderot:A Critical Biography</i>. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 27.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Diderot%3AA+Critical+Biography&rft.pages=27&rft.pub=Alfred+A.+Knopf&rft.date=1992&rft.au=P.N.+Furbank&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADenis+Diderot" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bryan Magee. The Story of Philosophy. 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In <a href="/wiki/George_Rousseau" title="George Rousseau">George Sebastian Rousseau</a>; <a href="/wiki/Roy_Porter" title="Roy Porter">Roy Porter</a> (eds.). <i>Exoticism in the Enlightenment</i>. Manchester University Press. p. 156. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0719026775" title="Special:BookSources/978-0719026775"><bdi>978-0719026775</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Princeton University Press. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/edgeofobjectivit00char/page/190">190–191</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0691023506" title="Special:BookSources/0691023506"><bdi>0691023506</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Edge+of+Objectivity%3A+An+Essay+in+the+History+of+Scientific+Ideas&rft.pages=190-191&rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&rft.date=1960&rft.isbn=0691023506&rft.aulast=Gillispie&rft.aufirst=Charles+Coulston&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fedgeofobjectivit00char%2Fpage%2F190&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADenis+Diderot" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorley1911-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorley1911_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorley1911_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorley1911_21-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorley1911_21-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorley1911_21-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMorley1911">Morley 1911</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStephens2014" class="citation book cs1">Stephens, Mitchell (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WN-dAgAAQBAJ&q=9781137002600&pg=PA123"><i>Imagine there's no heaven: how atheism helped create the modern world</i></a>. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 123–124. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1137002600" title="Special:BookSources/978-1137002600"><bdi>978-1137002600</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/852658386">852658386</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 June</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Imagine+there%27s+no+heaven%3A+how+atheism+helped+create+the+modern+world&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=123-124&rft.pub=Palgrave+Macmillan&rft.date=2014&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F852658386&rft.isbn=978-1137002600&rft.aulast=Stephens&rft.aufirst=Mitchell&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DWN-dAgAAQBAJ%26q%3D9781137002600%26pg%3DPA123&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADenis+Diderot" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Diderot's contemporary, also a Frenchman, <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Louis_Maupertuis" title="Pierre Louis Maupertuis">Pierre Louis Maupertuis</a>—who in 1745 was named Head of the Prussian Academy of Science under <a href="/wiki/Frederic_the_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederic the Great">Frederic the Great</a>—was developing similar ideas. These proto-evolutionary theories were by no means as thought out and systematic as those of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a> a hundred years later.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jonathan I. Israel, <i>Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750.</i> (<a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. 2001, 2002), p. 710</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZirkle1941" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Conway_Zirkle" title="Conway Zirkle">Zirkle, Conway</a> (25 April 1941). 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title="Special:EditPage/Template:French literature sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>Anderson, Wilda C. <i>Diderot's Dream.</i> Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.</li> <li>App, Urs (2010). <i>The Birth of Orientalism</i>. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0812242614" title="Special:BookSources/978-0812242614">978-0812242614</a>, pp. 133–187 on Diderot's role in the European discovery of Hinduism and Buddhism.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joxe_Azurmendi" title="Joxe Azurmendi">Azurmendi, Joxe</a> (1984). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jakingunea.com/show/879263b94d32016cd6f94d3b12adc871bec20e97">Entretien d'un philosophe: Diderot (1713–1784)</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Jakin_(magazine)" title="Jakin (magazine)">Jakin</a></i>, 32: 111–121.</li> <li>Ballstadt, Kurt P.A. <i>Diderot: Natural Philosopher.</i> Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008.</li> <li>Blom, Philipp (2010). <i>The Wicked Company</i>. New York: Basic Books</li> <li>Blum, Carol (1974). <i>Diderot: The Virtue of a Philosopher</i></li> <li>Brewer, Daniel. <i>Using the Encyclopédie: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Reading.</i> Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarlyle1833" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Carlyle, Thomas</a> (1833). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksofthomascar28carliala/page/n191/mode/2up">"Diderot"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Critical_and_Miscellaneous_Essays" title="Critical and Miscellaneous Essays">Critical and Miscellaneous Essays</a>: Volume III</i>. The Works of Thomas Carlyle in Thirty Volumes. Vol. XXVIII. New York: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Scribner%27s_Sons" title="Charles Scribner's Sons">Charles Scribner's Sons</a> (published 1904). pp. 177–248.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Diderot&rft.btitle=Critical+and+Miscellaneous+Essays%3A+Volume+III&rft.place=New+York&rft.series=The+Works+of+Thomas+Carlyle+in+Thirty+Volumes&rft.pages=177-248&rft.pub=Charles+Scribner%27s+Sons&rft.date=1833&rft.aulast=Carlyle&rft.aufirst=Thomas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fworksofthomascar28carliala%2Fpage%2Fn191%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADenis+Diderot" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Clark, Andrew Herrick. <i>Diderot's Part.</i> Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2008.</li> <li>Caplan, Jay. <i>Framed Narratives: Diderot's Genealogy of the Beholder.</i> Manchester: Manchester UP, 1986.</li> <li>Crocker, Lester G. (1974). <i>Diderot's Chaotic Order: Approach to a Synthesis</i></li> <li>Curran, Andrew S. (2019). <i>Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely</i></li> <li>D'Antuono, Giuseppina. (2021) "Historiographical heritages: Denis Diderot and the men of the French Revolution." <i>Diciottesimo Secolo</i> 6 (2021): 161–168. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ds/article/download/11696/12429">online</a></li></ul> <p><br /> </p> <ul><li>De la Carrera, Rosalina. <i>Success in Circuit Lies: Diderot's Communicational Practice.</i> Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1991.</li> <li>Dlugach, Tamara. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/DiderotDlugach">Denis Diderot</a></i>. Moscow: Progress Publishers. 1988.</li> <li>Fellows, Otis E. (1989). <i>Diderot</i></li> <li>France, Peter (1983). <i>Diderot</i></li> <li>Fontenay, Elisabeth de, and Jacques Proust. <i>Interpréter Diderot Aujourd'hui.</i> Paris: Le Sycomore, 1984.</li> <li>Furbank, P.N. (1992). <i>Diderot: A Critical Biography.</i> New York: A.A. Knopf,. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0679414215" title="Special:BookSources/0679414215">0679414215</a>.</li> <li>Gregory Efrosini, Mary (2006). <i>Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species</i> (Studies in Philosophy). New York: Routledge. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0415955513" title="Special:BookSources/0415955513">0415955513</a>.</li> <li>Havens, George R. (1955) <i>The Age of Ideas.</i> New York: Holt <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0891976515" title="Special:BookSources/0891976515">0891976515</a>.</li> <li>Hayes, Julia Candler. <i>The Representation of the Self in the Theater of La Chaussée, Diderot, and Sade.</i> Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1982.</li> <li>Hazard, Paul. <i>European thought in the eighteenth century from Montesquieu to Lessing</i> (1954). pp. 378–394</li> <li>Kavanagh, Thomas. "The Vacant Mirror: A Study of Mimesis through Diderot's <i>Jacques le Fataliste</i>," in <i>Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century</i> 104 (1973).</li> <li>Korolev, Serguei V. La Bibliothèque de Diderot: Vers une reconstitution. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre international d'etude du XVIIIe siecle, 2014. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2845590939" title="Special:BookSources/978-2845590939">978-2845590939</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKuzincki2008" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Kuzincki, Jason (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC">"Diderot, Denis (1713–1784)"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Hamowy" title="Ronald Hamowy">Hamowy, Ronald</a> (ed.). <i>The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism</i>. Thousand Oaks, CA: <a href="/wiki/SAGE_Publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="SAGE Publishing">Sage</a>; <a href="/wiki/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute">Cato Institute</a>. pp. 124–125. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.4135%2F9781412965811.n78">10.4135/9781412965811.n78</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1412965804" title="Special:BookSources/978-1412965804"><bdi>978-1412965804</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/2008009151">2008009151</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/750831024">750831024</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Diderot%2C+Denis+%281713%E2%80%931784%29&rft.btitle=The+Encyclopedia+of+Libertarianism&rft.place=Thousand+Oaks%2C+CA&rft.pages=124-125&rft.pub=Sage%3B+Cato+Institute&rft.date=2008&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F750831024&rft_id=info%3Alccn%2F2008009151&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.4135%2F9781412965811.n78&rft.isbn=978-1412965804&rft.aulast=Kuzincki&rft.aufirst=Jason&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DyxNgXs3TkJYC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADenis+Diderot" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Lentin, A. "Catherine the Great and Denis Diderot" <i>History Today</i> (May 1972), pp. 313–332.</li> <li>Mason, John H. (1982). <i>The Irresistible Diderot</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0704334690" title="Special:BookSources/0704334690">0704334690</a></li> <li>Peretz, Eyal (2013). "Dramatic Experiments: Life according to Diderot" <a href="/wiki/State_University_of_New_York_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="State University of New York Press">State University of New York Press</a></li> <li>Rex, Walter E. <i>Diderot's Counterpoints: The Dynamics of Contrariety in His Major Works.</i> Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1998.</li> <li>Saint-Amand, Pierre. <i>Diderot.</i> Saratoga, CA: Anma Libri, 1984.</li> <li>Simon, Julia (1995). <i>Mass Enlightenment.</i> Albany: <a href="/wiki/State_University_of_New_York_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="State University of New York Press">State University of New York Press</a>,. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0791426386" title="Special:BookSources/0791426386">0791426386</a>.</li> <li>Tunstall, Kate E. (2011). <i>Blindness and Enlightenment. An Essay. With a new translation of Diderot's Letter on the Blind</i>. Continuum</li> <li>Wilson, Arthur McCandless (1972). <i>Diderot</i>, the standard biography</li> <li>Vasco, Gerhard M. (1978). "Diderot and Goethe, A Study in Science and Humanism", <i>Librairei Slatkine</i>, <i>Libraire Champion</i>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZaretsky,_Robert2019" class="citation book cs1">Zaretsky, Robert (2019). <i>Catherine and Diderot : the Empress, the philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment</i>. Harvard UP. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0674737907" title="Special:BookSources/978-0674737907"><bdi>978-0674737907</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Catherine+and+Diderot+%3A+the+Empress%2C+the+philosopher%2C+and+the+Fate+of+the+Enlightenment&rft.pub=Harvard+UP&rft.date=2019&rft.isbn=978-0674737907&rft.au=Zaretsky%2C+Robert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADenis+Diderot" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary_sources">Primary sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Diderot&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Primary sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Diderot, Denis, ed. <i>A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry, Vol. 1</i> (1993 reprint) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486274284">excerpt and text search</a></li> <li>Diderot, Denis. <i>Diderot: Political Writings</i> ed. by John Hope Mason and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Wokler" title="Robert Wokler">Robert Wokler</a> (1992) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521369118">excerpt and text search, with introduction</a></li> <li>Diderot, Denis. <i>Thoughts on Religion</i> (2002 edition) Translated and edited by Nicolas Walter. G.W. Foote & Co. Ltd. Freethinker's Classics No. 4. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1911578024" title="Special:BookSources/978-1911578024">978-1911578024</a>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?as_q=&num=10&lr=&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_brr=1&as_pt=ALLTYPES&lr=lang_en&as_vt=&as_auth=diderot&as_pub=&as_sub=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_isbn=&as_issn=">Main works of Diderot in English translation</a></li> <li>Hoyt, Nellie and Cassirer, Thomas. <i>Encyclopedia, Selections: Diderot, D'Alembert, and a Society of Men of Letters.</i> New York: <a href="/wiki/Bobbs-Merrill_Company" title="Bobbs-Merrill Company">Bobbs-Merrill Company</a>, 1965. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/item/65026535">65-26535</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0672604795" title="Special:BookSources/0672604795">0672604795</a>.</li> <li>Kemp, Jonathan (ed). <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/diderotinterpreterofnature">Diderot, Interpreter of Nature: Selected Writings</a></i>. 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navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/What_Is_the_Third_Estate%3F" title="What Is the Third Estate?">What Is the Third Estate?</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Jan 1789)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9veillon_riots" title="Réveillon riots">Réveillon riots</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(28 Apr 1789)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Estates_General_of_1789" title="Estates General of 1789">Convocation of the Estates General</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(5 May 1789)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Joseph,_Dauphin_of_France#Illness" title="Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France">Death of the Dauphin</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(4 June 1789)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(French_Revolution)" title="National Assembly (French Revolution)">National Assembly</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(17 Jun – 9 Jul 1790)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennis_Court_Oath" title="Tennis Court Oath">Tennis Court Oath</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(20 Jun 1789)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Constituent_Assembly_(France)" title="National Constituent Assembly (France)">National Constituent Assembly</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(9 Jul – 30 Sep 1791)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille" title="Storming of the Bastille">Storming of the Bastille</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(14 Jul 1789)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Fear" title="Great Fear">Great Fear</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(20 Jul – 5 Aug 1789)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abolition_of_feudalism_in_France" title="Abolition of feudalism in France">Abolition of Feudalism</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(4–11 Aug 1789)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen" title="Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen">Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(26 Aug 1789)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_March_on_Versailles" title="Women's March on Versailles">Women's March on Versailles</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(5 Oct 1789)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biens_nationaux" title="Biens nationaux">Nationalization of the Church properties</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2 Nov 1789)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1790</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Parlement#Abolition" title="Parlement">Abolition of the Parlements</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Feb–Jul 1790)</span></li> <li>Abolition of the <a href="/wiki/French_nobility#The_abolition_of_privileges_during_the_French_Revolution" title="French nobility">Nobility</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(23 Jun 1790)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_Constitution_of_the_Clergy" title="Civil Constitution of the Clergy">Civil Constitution of the Clergy</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(12 Jul 1790)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/F%C3%AAte_de_la_F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration" title="Fête de la Fédération">Fête de la Fédération</a></i> <small>(14 Jul 1790)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1791</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flight_to_Varennes" title="Flight to Varennes">Flight to Varennes</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(20–21 Jun 1791)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Champ_de_Mars_massacre" title="Champ de Mars massacre">Champ de Mars massacre</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(17 Jul 1791)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_Pillnitz" title="Declaration of Pillnitz">Declaration of Pillnitz</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(27 Aug 1791)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Constitution_of_1791" title="French Constitution of 1791">The Constitution of 1791</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(3 Sep 1791)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_(France)" title="Legislative Assembly (France)">National Legislative Assembly</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1 Oct 1791 – Sep 1792)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1792</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_First_Coalition" title="War of the First Coalition">France declares war</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(20 Apr 1792)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brunswick_Manifesto" title="Brunswick Manifesto">Brunswick Manifesto</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(25 Jul 1792)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paris_Commune_(1789%E2%80%931795)" title="Paris Commune (1789–1795)">Paris Commune becomes insurrectionary</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Jun 1792)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insurrection_of_10_August_1792" title="Insurrection of 10 August 1792">10th of August</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(10 Aug 1792)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_Massacres" title="September Massacres">September Massacres</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Sep 1792)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Convention" title="National Convention">National Convention</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(20 Sep 1792 – 26 Oct 1795)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_First_Republic" title="French First Republic">First republic declared</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(22 Sep 1792)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1793</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Execution_of_Louis_XVI" title="Execution of Louis XVI">Execution of Louis XVI</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(21 Jan 1793)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Tribunal" title="Revolutionary Tribunal">Revolutionary Tribunal</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(9 Mar 1793 – 31 May 1795)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reign_of_Terror" title="Reign of Terror">Reign of Terror</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(27 Jun 1793 – 27 Jul 1794)</span> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety" title="Committee of Public Safety">Committee of Public Safety</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Committee_of_General_Security" title="Committee of General Security">Committee of General Security</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insurrection_of_31_May_%E2%80%93_2_June_1793" title="Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793">Fall of the Girondists</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2 Jun 1793)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat#Death" title="Jean-Paul Marat">Assassination of Marat</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(13 Jul 1793)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lev%C3%A9e_en_masse" title="Levée en masse">Levée en masse</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(23 Aug 1793)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Death_of_Marat" title="The Death of Marat">The Death of Marat</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(painting)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_of_Suspects" title="Law of Suspects">Law of Suspects</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(17 Sep 1793)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie_Antoinette#Trial_and_execution_(14–16_October_1793)" title="Marie Antoinette">Marie Antoinette is guillotined</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(16 Oct 1793)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dechristianization_of_France_during_the_French_Revolution#The_Revolution_and_the_Church" title="Dechristianization of France during the French Revolution">Anti-clerical laws</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(throughout the year)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1794</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Danton#Life" title="Georges Danton">Danton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Camille_Desmoulins#Trial_and_execution" title="Camille Desmoulins">Desmoulins guillotined</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(5 Apr 1794)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_of_22_Prairial" title="Law of 22 Prairial">Law of 22 Prairial</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(10 Jun 1794)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thermidorian_Reaction" title="Thermidorian Reaction">Thermidorian Reaction</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(27 Jul 1794)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre" title="Maximilien Robespierre">Robespierre</a> guillotined <span style="font-size:85%;">(28 Jul 1794)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_White_Terror" title="First White Terror">White Terror</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Fall 1794)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacobins#Fall_from_power" title="Jacobins">Closing of the Jacobin Club</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(11 Nov 1794)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1795–6</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Insurrection_of_12_Germinal_Year_III" title="Insurrection of 12 Germinal Year III">Insurrection of 12 Germinal Year III</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1 Apr 1795)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Year_III" title="Constitution of the Year III">Constitution of the Year III</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(22 Aug 1795)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Directory" title="French Directory">Directoire</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1795–99)</span> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Five_Hundred" title="Council of Five Hundred">Council of Five Hundred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Ancients" title="Council of Ancients">Council of Ancients</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/13_Vend%C3%A9miaire" title="13 Vendémiaire">13 Vendémiaire</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">5 Oct 1795</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_of_the_Equals" title="Conspiracy of the Equals">Conspiracy of the Equals</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(May 1796)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1797</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coup_of_18_Fructidor" title="Coup of 18 Fructidor">Coup of 18 Fructidor</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(4 Sep 1797)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Congress_of_Rastatt" title="Second Congress of Rastatt">Second Congress of Rastatt</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Dec 1797)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1798</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Law_of_22_Flor%C3%A9al_Year_VI" title="Law of 22 Floréal Year VI">Law of 22 Floréal Year VI</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(11 May 1798)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1799</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coup_of_30_Prairial_VII" title="Coup of 30 Prairial VII">Coup of 30 Prairial VII</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(18 Jun 1799)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coup_of_18_Brumaire" title="Coup of 18 Brumaire">Coup of 18 Brumaire</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(9 Nov 1799)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Year_VIII" title="Constitution of the Year VIII">Constitution of the Year VIII</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(24 Dec 1799)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Consulate" title="French Consulate">Consulate</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div id="Revolutionary_campaigns" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Revolutionary campaigns</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Campaigns_of_1792_in_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="Campaigns of 1792 in the French Revolutionary Wars">1792</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun_(1792)" title="Battle of Verdun (1792)">Verdun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Thionville_(1792)" title="Siege of Thionville (1792)">Thionville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Valmy" title="Battle of Valmy">Valmy</a></li> <li>Royalist Revolts <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chouannerie" title="Chouannerie">Chouannerie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_the_Vend%C3%A9e" title="War in the Vendée">Vendée</a></li> <li>Dauphiné</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Column_of_the_Goddess" title="Column of the Goddess">Lille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Mainz_(1792)" title="Siege of Mainz (1792)">Siege of Mainz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jemappes" title="Battle of Jemappes">Jemappes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Namur_(1792)" title="Siege of Namur (1792)">Namur</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%C3%A8ge_de_Namur_(1792)" class="extiw" title="fr:Siège de Namur (1792)">fr</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Campaigns_of_1793_in_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="Campaigns of 1793 in the French Revolutionary Wars">1793</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_First_Coalition" title="War of the First Coalition">First Coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_the_Vend%C3%A9e" title="War in the Vendée">War in the Vendée</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Neerwinden_(1793)" title="Battle of Neerwinden (1793)">Battle of Neerwinden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Famars" title="Battle of Famars">Battle of Famars</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(23 May 1793)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_expedition_to_Sardinia" title="French expedition to Sardinia">Expedition to Sardinia</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(21 Dec 1792 - 25 May 1793)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kaiserslautern" title="Battle of Kaiserslautern">Battle of Kaiserslautern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Mainz_(1793)" title="Siege of Mainz (1793)">Siege of Mainz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wattignies" title="Battle of Wattignies">Battle of Wattignies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hondschoote" title="Battle of Hondschoote">Battle of Hondschoote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Bellegarde_(1793)" title="Siege of Bellegarde (1793)">Siege of Bellegarde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Peyrestortes" title="Battle of Peyrestortes">Battle of Peyrestortes (Pyrenees)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Toulon" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Toulon">Siege of Toulon</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(18 Sep – 18 Dec 1793)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Wissembourg_(1793)" class="mw-redirect" title="First Battle of Wissembourg (1793)">First Battle of Wissembourg</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(13 Oct 1793)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Truillas" title="Battle of Truillas">Battle of Truillas (Pyrenees)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Wissembourg_(1793)" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Battle of Wissembourg (1793)">Second Battle of Wissembourg</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(26–27 Dec 1793)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Campaigns_of_1794_in_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="Campaigns of 1794 in the French Revolutionary Wars">1794</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Villers-en-Cauchies" title="Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies">Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(24 Apr 1794)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Boulou" title="Second Battle of Boulou">Second Battle of Boulou</a> (Pyrenees) <span style="font-size:85%;">(30 Apr – 1 May 1794)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tourcoing" title="Battle of Tourcoing">Battle of Tourcoing</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(18 May 1794)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tournay_(1794)" title="Battle of Tournay (1794)">Battle of Tournay</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(22 May 1794)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glorious_First_of_June" title="Glorious First of June">Glorious First of June</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1 Jun 1794)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fleurus_(1794)" title="Battle of Fleurus (1794)">Battle of Fleurus</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(26 Jun 1794)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chouannerie" title="Chouannerie">Chouannerie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aldenhoven_(1794)" title="Battle of Aldenhoven (1794)">Battle of Aldenhoven</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2 Oct 1794)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Luxembourg_(1794-95)" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Luxembourg (1794-95)">Siege of Luxembourg</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(22 Nov 1794 - 7 Jun 1795)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Campaigns_of_1795_in_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="Campaigns of 1795 in the French Revolutionary Wars">1795</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Luxembourg_(1794-95)" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Luxembourg (1794-95)">Siege of Luxembourg</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(22 Nov 1794 - 7 Jun 1795)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_of_Basel" title="Peace of Basel">Peace of Basel</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Campaigns_of_1796_in_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="Campaigns of 1796 in the French Revolutionary Wars">1796</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Campaign_of_1796%E2%80%931797" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian Campaign of 1796–1797">Italian campaign</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lonato" title="Battle of Lonato">Battle of Lonato</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(3–4 Aug 1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Castiglione" title="Battle of Castiglione">Battle of Castiglione</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(5 Aug 1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Theiningen" title="Battle of Theiningen">Battle of Theiningen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Neresheim" title="Battle of Neresheim">Battle of Neresheim</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(11 Aug 1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Amberg" title="Battle of Amberg">Battle of Amberg</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(24 Aug 1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_W%C3%BCrzburg" title="Battle of Würzburg">Battle of Würzburg</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(3 Sep 1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rovereto" title="Battle of Rovereto">Battle of Rovereto</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(4 Sep 1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bassano" title="Battle of Bassano">First Battle of Bassano</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(8 Sep 1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Emmendingen" title="Battle of Emmendingen">Battle of Emmendingen</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(19 Oct 1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Schliengen" title="Battle of Schliengen">Battle of Schliengen</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(26 Oct 1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Bassano" title="Second Battle of Bassano">Second Battle of Bassano</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(6 Nov 1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Calliano" title="Battle of Calliano">Battle of Calliano</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(6–7 Nov 1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Arcole" title="Battle of Arcole">Battle of Arcole</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(15–17 Nov 1796)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_expedition_to_Ireland_(1796)" title="French expedition to Ireland (1796)">Ireland expedition</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Dec 1796)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Campaigns_of_1797_in_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="Campaigns of 1797 in the French Revolutionary Wars">1797</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Campaign_of_1796-1797" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian Campaign of 1796-1797">Italian campaign</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1797)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_13_January_1797" title="Action of 13 January 1797">Naval Engagement off Brittany</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(13 Jan 1797)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rivoli" title="Battle of Rivoli">Battle of Rivoli</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(14–15 Jan 1797)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_25_January_1797" title="Action of 25 January 1797">Battle of the Bay of Cádiz</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(25 Jan 1797)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Leoben" class="mw-redirect" title="Treaty of Leoben">Treaty of Leoben</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(17 Apr 1797)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Neuwied_(1797)" title="Battle of Neuwied (1797)">Battle of Neuwied</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(18 Apr 1797)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Campo_Formio" title="Treaty of Campo Formio">Treaty of Campo Formio</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(17 Oct 1797)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Campaigns_of_1798_in_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="Campaigns of 1798 in the French Revolutionary Wars">1798</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/French_invasion_of_Switzerland" title="French invasion of Switzerland">French invasion of Switzerland</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(28 January – 17 May 1798)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_campaign_in_Egypt_and_Syria" class="mw-redirect" title="French campaign in Egypt and Syria">French Invasion of Egypt</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1798–1801)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Rebellion_of_1798#French_landing" title="Irish Rebellion of 1798">Irish Rebellion of 1798</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(23 May – 23 Sep 1798)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quasi-War" title="Quasi-War">Quasi-War</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1798–1800)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peasants%27_War_(1798)" title="Peasants' War (1798)">Peasants' War</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(12 Oct – 5 Dec 1798)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Campaigns_of_1799_in_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="Campaigns of 1799 in the French Revolutionary Wars">1799</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Second_Coalition" title="War of the Second Coalition">Second Coalition</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1798–1802)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Acre_(1799)" title="Siege of Acre (1799)">Siege of Acre</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(20 Mar – 21 May 1799)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ostrach" title="Battle of Ostrach">Battle of Ostrach</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(20–21 Mar 1799)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stockach_(1799)" title="Battle of Stockach (1799)">Battle of Stockach</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(25 Mar 1799)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Magnano" title="Battle of Magnano">Battle of Magnano</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(5 Apr 1799)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cassano_(1799)" title="Battle of Cassano (1799)">Battle of Cassano</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(27–28 Apr 1799)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Zurich" title="First Battle of Zurich">First Battle of Zurich</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(4–7 Jun 1799)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trebbia_(1799)" title="Battle of Trebbia (1799)">Battle of Trebbia</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(17–20 Jun 1799)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Novi_(1799)" title="Battle of Novi (1799)">Battle of Novi</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(15 Aug 1799)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Zurich" title="Second Battle of Zurich">Second Battle of Zurich</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(25–26 Sep 1799)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Campaigns_of_1800_in_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Campaigns of 1800 in the French Revolutionary Wars">1800</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Marengo" title="Battle of Marengo">Battle of Marengo</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(14 Jun 1800)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convention_of_Alessandria" title="Convention of Alessandria">Convention of Alessandria</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(15 Jun 1800)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hohenlinden" title="Battle of Hohenlinden">Battle of Hohenlinden</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(3 Dec 1800)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_League_of_Armed_Neutrality" title="Second League of Armed Neutrality">League of Armed Neutrality</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1800–02)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Campaigns_of_1801_in_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Campaigns of 1801 in the French Revolutionary Wars">1801</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Lun%C3%A9ville" title="Treaty of Lunéville">Treaty of Lunéville</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(9 Feb 1801)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Florence" title="Treaty of Florence">Treaty of Florence</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(18 Mar 1801)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Algeciras_campaign" title="Algeciras campaign">Algeciras campaign</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(8 Jul 1801)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1802</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Amiens" title="Treaty of Amiens">Treaty of Amiens</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(25 Mar 1802)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1802)" title="Treaty of Paris (1802)">Treaty of Paris</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(25 Jun 1802)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div id="Military_leaders" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Military leaders</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/French_First_Republic" title="French First Republic"><img alt="French First Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_France_official.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_official.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_France_official.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_official.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_France_official.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_official.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/French_First_Republic" title="French First Republic">France</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Army" title="French Revolutionary Army">French Army</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eustache_Charles_d%27Aoust" title="Eustache Charles d'Aoust">Eustache Charles d'Aoust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Augereau" class="mw-redirect" title="Pierre Augereau">Pierre Augereau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandre_de_Beauharnais" title="Alexandre de Beauharnais">Alexandre de Beauharnais</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_XIV_John" title="Charles XIV John">Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis-Alexandre_Berthier" title="Louis-Alexandre Berthier">Louis-Alexandre Berthier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Bessi%C3%A8res" title="Jean-Baptiste Bessières">Jean-Baptiste Bessières</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoléon Bonaparte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guillaume_Brune" title="Guillaume Brune">Guillaume Brune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Carteaux" title="Jean François Carteaux">Jean François Carteaux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-%C3%89tienne_Championnet" title="Jean-Étienne Championnet">Jean-Étienne Championnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Bertin_Gaston_Chapuis_de_Tourville" title="Charles Bertin Gaston Chapuis de Tourville">Chapuis de Tourville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Philippe,_Comte_de_Custine" title="Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine">Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis-Nicolas_Davout" title="Louis-Nicolas Davout">Louis-Nicolas Davout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Desaix" title="Louis Desaix">Louis Desaix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Fran%C3%A7ois_Dugommier" title="Jacques François Dugommier">Jacques François Dugommier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas-Alexandre_Dumas" title="Thomas-Alexandre Dumas">Thomas-Alexandre Dumas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Fran%C3%A7ois_Dumouriez" title="Charles François Dumouriez">Charles François Dumouriez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Marie_Barth%C3%A9lemy_Ferino" title="Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino">Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis-Charles_de_Flers" title="Louis-Charles de Flers">Louis-Charles de Flers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Grenier" title="Paul Grenier">Paul Grenier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_de_Grouchy,_marquis_de_Grouchy" title="Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy">Emmanuel de Grouchy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Maurice_Hatry" title="Jacques Maurice Hatry">Jacques Maurice Hatry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lazare_Hoche" title="Lazare Hoche">Lazare Hoche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Jourdan" title="Jean-Baptiste Jourdan">Jean-Baptiste Jourdan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Christophe_de_Kellermann" title="François Christophe de Kellermann">François Christophe de Kellermann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Kl%C3%A9ber" title="Jean-Baptiste Kléber">Jean-Baptiste Kléber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Choderlos_de_Laclos" title="Pierre Choderlos de Laclos">Pierre Choderlos de Laclos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Lannes" title="Jean Lannes">Jean Lannes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Leclerc_(general,_born_1772)" title="Charles Leclerc (general, born 1772)">Charles Leclerc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Lecourbe" title="Claude Lecourbe">Claude Lecourbe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Joseph_Lefebvre" title="François Joseph Lefebvre">François Joseph Lefebvre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Macdonald" title="Étienne Macdonald">Étienne Macdonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Antoine_Marbot" title="Jean-Antoine Marbot">Jean-Antoine Marbot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcellin_Marbot" title="Marcellin Marbot">Marcellin Marbot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_S%C3%A9verin_Marceau" title="François Séverin Marceau">François Séverin Marceau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auguste_de_Marmont" title="Auguste de Marmont">Auguste de Marmont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Mass%C3%A9na" title="André Masséna">André Masséna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bon-Adrien_Jeannot_de_Moncey" title="Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey">Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Victor_Marie_Moreau" title="Jean Victor Marie Moreau">Jean Victor Marie Moreau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Mortier,_Duke_of_Tr%C3%A9vise" class="mw-redirect" title="Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise">Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joachim_Murat" title="Joachim Murat">Joachim Murat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michel_Ney" title="Michel Ney">Michel Ney</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre-Jacques_Osten&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pierre-Jacques Osten (page does not exist)">Pierre-Jacques Osten</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jacques_Osten" class="extiw" title="fr:Pierre-Jacques Osten">fr</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Oudinot" title="Nicolas Oudinot">Nicolas Oudinot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine-Dominique_de_P%C3%A9rignon" title="Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon">Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Charles_Pichegru" title="Jean-Charles Pichegru">Jean-Charles Pichegru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Poniatowski" title="Józef Poniatowski">Józef Poniatowski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laurent_de_Gouvion_Saint-Cyr" title="Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr">Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barth%C3%A9lemy_Louis_Joseph_Sch%C3%A9rer" title="Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer">Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Mathieu-Philibert_S%C3%A9rurier" title="Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier">Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Souham" title="Joseph Souham">Joseph Souham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-de-Dieu_Soult" title="Jean-de-Dieu Soult">Jean-de-Dieu Soult</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis-Gabriel_Suchet" title="Louis-Gabriel Suchet">Louis-Gabriel Suchet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude-Henri_Belgrand_de_Vaubois" title="Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois">Belgrand de Vaubois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude-Victor_Perrin" title="Claude-Victor Perrin">Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/French_Navy#18th_century" title="French Navy">French Navy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles-Alexandre_L%C3%A9on_Durand_Linois" title="Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois">Charles-Alexandre Linois</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Coalition_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Coalition Wars">Opposition</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Austrian_Empire" title="Austrian Empire"><img alt="Austrian Empire" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Flag_of_the_Habsburg_Monarchy.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Habsburg_Monarchy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Flag_of_the_Habsburg_Monarchy.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Habsburg_Monarchy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Flag_of_the_Habsburg_Monarchy.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Habsburg_Monarchy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Austrian_Empire" title="Austrian Empire">Austria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef_Alvinczi" title="József Alvinczi">József Alvinczi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archduke_Charles,_Duke_of_Teschen" title="Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen">Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_S%C3%A9bastien_Charles_Joseph_de_Croix,_Count_of_Clerfayt" title="François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt">Count of Clerfayt <span style="font-size:85%;">(Walloon)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Aloys_zu_F%C3%BCrstenberg" title="Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg">Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Freiherr_von_Hotze" title="Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze">Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze <span style="font-size:85%;">(Swiss)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Adolf,_Count_von_Kalckreuth" title="Friedrich Adolf, Count von Kalckreuth">Friedrich Adolf, Count von Kalckreuth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Kray" title="Paul Kray">Pál Kray <span style="font-size:85%;">(Hungarian)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Eugene,_Prince_of_Lambesc" title="Charles Eugene, Prince of Lambesc">Charles Eugene, Prince of Lambesc <span style="font-size:85%;">(French)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximilian_Anton_Karl,_Count_Baillet_de_Latour" title="Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour">Maximilian Baillet de Latour <span style="font-size:85%;">(Walloon)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Mack_von_Leiberich" title="Karl Mack von Leiberich">Karl Mack von Leiberich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Ritter_von_Otto" title="Rudolf Ritter von Otto">Rudolf Ritter von Otto <span style="font-size:85%;">(Saxon)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_Josias_of_Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld" title="Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld">Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Vitus_von_Quosdanovich" title="Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich">Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_Heinrich_XV_of_Reuss-Plauen" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen">Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_M%C3%A9sz%C3%A1ros_von_Szoboszl%C3%B3" title="Johann Mészáros von Szoboszló">Johann Mészáros von Szoboszló <span style="font-size:85%;">(Hungarian)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Philipp_Sebottendorf" title="Karl Philipp Sebottendorf">Karl Philipp Sebottendorf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagobert_Sigmund_von_Wurmser" title="Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser">Dagobert von Wurmser</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain"><img alt="Kingdom of Great Britain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Britain</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir" title="Sir">Sir</a> <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Abercromby" title="Ralph Abercromby">Ralph Abercromby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Saumarez,_1st_Baron_de_Saumarez" title="James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez">James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Pellew,_1st_Viscount_Exmouth" title="Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth">Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_Frederick,_Duke_of_York_and_Albany" title="Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany">Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Dutch_Republic" title="Dutch Republic"><img alt="Dutch Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Statenvlag.svg/23px-Statenvlag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Statenvlag.svg/35px-Statenvlag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Statenvlag.svg/45px-Statenvlag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Republic" title="Dutch Republic">Netherlands</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_V,_Prince_of_Orange" title="William V, Prince of Orange">William V, Prince of Orange</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia"><img alt="Kingdom of Prussia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281803-1892%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281803-1892%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281803-1892%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281803-1892%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281803-1892%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281803-1892%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Prussia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_William_Ferdinand,_Duke_of_Brunswick" title="Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick">Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Louis,_Prince_of_Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen">Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire"><img alt="Russian Empire" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Korsakov" title="Alexander Korsakov">Alexander Korsakov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Suvorov" title="Alexander Suvorov">Alexander Suvorov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrei_Rosenberg" title="Andrei Rosenberg">Andrei Rosenberg</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain"><img alt="Spain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Flag_of_Spain_%281785%E2%80%931873%2C_1875%E2%80%931931%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain_%281785%E2%80%931873%2C_1875%E2%80%931931%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Flag_of_Spain_%281785%E2%80%931873%2C_1875%E2%80%931931%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain_%281785%E2%80%931873%2C_1875%E2%80%931931%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Flag_of_Spain_%281785%E2%80%931873%2C_1875%E2%80%931931%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain_%281785%E2%80%931873%2C_1875%E2%80%931931%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/History_of_Spain_(1700%E2%80%931810)#Charles_IV,_decline_and_fall_(1788–1808)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Spain (1700–1810)">Spain</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Luis_Firm%C3%ADn_de_Carvajal,_Conde_de_la_Uni%C3%B3n" class="mw-redirect" title="Luis Firmín de Carvajal, Conde de la Unión">Luis Firmin de Carvajal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Ricardos" title="Antonio Ricardos">Antonio Ricardos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div id="Other_significant_figures_and_factions" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Other significant figures and factions</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Patriotic_Society_of_1789" title="Patriotic Society of 1789">Patriotic Society of 1789</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Sylvain_Bailly" title="Jean Sylvain Bailly">Jean Sylvain Bailly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette" title="Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette">Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Alexandre_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric,_duc_de_la_Rochefoucauld-Liancourt" class="mw-redirect" title="François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt">François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Ren%C3%A9_Guy_le_Chapelier" title="Isaac René Guy le Chapelier">Isaac René Guy le Chapelier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Gabriel_Riqueti,_comte_de_Mirabeau" title="Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau">Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Joseph_Siey%C3%A8s" title="Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès">Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-P%C3%A9rigord" title="Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord">Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marquis_de_Condorcet" title="Marquis de Condorcet">Nicolas de Condorcet</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Feuillant_(political_group)" title="Feuillant (political group)">Feuillants</a><br />and <i><a href="/wiki/Club_de_Clichy" title="Club de Clichy">monarchiens</a></i></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grace_Elliott" title="Grace Elliott">Grace Elliott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnaud_II_de_La_Porte" title="Arnaud II de La Porte">Arnaud de La Porte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Sifrein_Maury" title="Jean-Sifrein Maury">Jean-Sifrein Maury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Marie,_marquis_de_Barth%C3%A9lemy" title="François-Marie, marquis de Barthélemy">François-Marie, marquis de Barthélemy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guillaume-Mathieu_Dumas" title="Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas">Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoine_Barnave" title="Antoine Barnave">Antoine Barnave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette" title="Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette">Lafayette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandre-Th%C3%A9odore-Victor,_comte_de_Lameth" title="Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth">Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Malo_Fran%C3%A7ois_Lameth" title="Charles Malo François Lameth">Charles Malo François Lameth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Ch%C3%A9nier" title="André Chénier">André Chénier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Rewbell" title="Jean-François Rewbell">Jean-François Rewbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camille_Jordan_(politician)" title="Camille Jordan (politician)">Camille Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl" title="Germaine de Staël">Madame de Staël</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Antoine_de_Boissy_d%27Anglas" title="François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas">Boissy d'Anglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Charles_Pichegru" title="Jean-Charles Pichegru">Jean-Charles Pichegru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Paul_Royer-Collard" title="Pierre Paul Royer-Collard">Pierre Paul Royer-Collard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Bar%C3%A8re" title="Bertrand Barère">Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Girondins" title="Girondins">Girondins</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Pierre_Brissot" title="Jacques Pierre Brissot">Jacques Pierre Brissot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Marie_Roland_de_la_Plati%C3%A8re" title="Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière">Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madame_Roland" title="Madame Roland">Madame Roland</a></li> <li>Father <a href="/wiki/Henri_Gr%C3%A9goire" title="Henri Grégoire">Henri Grégoire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Clavi%C3%A8re" title="Étienne Clavière">Étienne Clavière</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marquis_de_Condorcet" title="Marquis de Condorcet">Marquis de Condorcet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Corday" title="Charlotte Corday">Charlotte Corday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie-Jean_H%C3%A9rault_de_S%C3%A9chelles" title="Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles">Marie Jean Hérault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Treilhard" title="Jean Baptiste Treilhard">Jean Baptiste Treilhard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Victurnien_Vergniaud" title="Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud">Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_P%C3%A9tion_de_Villeneuve" title="Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve">Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Debry" title="Jean Debry">Jean Debry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olympe_de_Gouges" title="Olympe de Gouges">Olympe de Gouges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Robert_Lindet" title="Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet">Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Marie_de_La_R%C3%A9velli%C3%A8re-L%C3%A9peaux" title="Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux">Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/The_Plain" title="The Plain">The Plain</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Joseph_Siey%C3%A8s" title="Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès">Abbé Sieyès</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Jacques_R%C3%A9gis_de_Cambac%C3%A9r%C3%A8s" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès">de Cambacérès</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles-Fran%C3%A7ois_Lebrun" title="Charles-François Lebrun">Charles-François Lebrun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Cambon" title="Pierre-Joseph Cambon">Pierre-Joseph Cambon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Bar%C3%A8re" title="Bertrand Barère">Bertrand Barère</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lazare_Carnot" title="Lazare Carnot">Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Philippe_II,_Duke_of_Orl%C3%A9ans" title="Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans">Philippe Égalité</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Philippe_I" title="Louis Philippe I">Louis Philippe I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Gabriel_Riqueti,_comte_de_Mirabeau" title="Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau">Mirabeau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoine_Christophe_Merlin" title="Antoine Christophe Merlin">Antoine Christophe Merlin de Thionville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Joseph_Mounier" title="Jean Joseph Mounier">Jean Joseph Mounier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Samuel_du_Pont_de_Nemours" title="Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours">Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Neufch%C3%A2teau" class="mw-redirect" title="François de Neufchâteau">François de Neufchâteau</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/The_Mountain" title="The Mountain">Montagnards</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre" title="Maximilien Robespierre">Maximilien Robespierre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Danton" title="Georges Danton">Georges Danton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat" title="Jean-Paul Marat">Jean-Paul Marat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camille_Desmoulins" title="Camille Desmoulins">Camille Desmoulins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Antoine_de_Saint-Just" title="Louis Antoine de Saint-Just">Louis Antoine de Saint-Just</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Barras" title="Paul Barras">Paul Barras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Philippe_I" title="Louis Philippe I">Louis Philippe I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis-Michel_le_Peletier,_marquis_de_Saint-Fargeau" title="Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau">Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David" title="Jacques-Louis David">Jacques-Louis David</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade" title="Marquis de Sade">Marquis de Sade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Couthon" title="Georges Couthon">Georges Couthon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Ducos" title="Roger Ducos">Roger Ducos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Marie_Collot_d%27Herbois" title="Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois">Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Henri_Voulland" title="Jean-Henri Voulland">Jean-Henri Voulland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippe-Antoine_Merlin_de_Douai" title="Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai">Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoine_Quentin_Fouquier-Tinville" title="Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville">Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippe-Fran%C3%A7ois-Joseph_Le_Bas" title="Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas">Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc-Guillaume_Alexis_Vadier" title="Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier">Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Pierre-Andr%C3%A9_Amar" title="Jean-Pierre-André Amar">Jean-Pierre-André Amar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Antoine,_comte_Prieur-Duvernois" title="Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois">Prieur de la Côte-d'Or</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Louis_Prieur" title="Pierre Louis Prieur">Prieur de la Marne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Romme" title="Gilbert Romme">Gilbert Romme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Bon_Saint-Andr%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Bon Saint-André">Jean Bon Saint-André</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Lambert_Tallien" title="Jean-Lambert Tallien">Jean-Lambert Tallien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Louis_Prieur" title="Pierre Louis Prieur">Pierre Louis Prieur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoine_Christophe_Saliceti" title="Antoine Christophe Saliceti">Antoine Christophe Saliceti</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9bertists" title="Hébertists">Hébertists</a><br />and <i><a href="/wiki/Enrag%C3%A9s" title="Enragés">Enragés</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_H%C3%A9bert" title="Jacques Hébert">Jacques Hébert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques-Nicolas_Billaud-Varenne" title="Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne">Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Gaspard_Chaumette" title="Pierre Gaspard Chaumette">Pierre Gaspard Chaumette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles-Philippe_Ronsin" title="Charles-Philippe Ronsin">Charles-Philippe Ronsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoine-Fran%C3%A7ois_Momoro" title="Antoine-François Momoro">Antoine-François Momoro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Nicolas_Vincent" title="François-Nicolas Vincent">François-Nicolas Vincent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Chabot" title="François Chabot">François Chabot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_No%C3%ABl_Bouchotte" title="Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte">Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Joseph_Gobel" title="Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel">Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Hanriot" title="François Hanriot">François Hanriot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Roux" title="Jacques Roux">Jacques Roux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanislas-Marie_Maillard" title="Stanislas-Marie Maillard">Stanislas-Marie Maillard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles-Philippe_Ronsin" title="Charles-Philippe Ronsin">Charles-Philippe Ronsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Varlet" title="Jean-François Varlet">Jean-François Varlet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Th%C3%A9ophile_Victor_Leclerc" title="Jean Théophile Victor Leclerc">Theophile Leclerc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claire_Lacombe" title="Claire Lacombe">Claire Lacombe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pauline_L%C3%A9on" title="Pauline Léon">Pauline Léon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-No%C3%ABl_Babeuf" title="François-Noël Babeuf">Gracchus Babeuf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvain_Mar%C3%A9chal" title="Sylvain Maréchal">Sylvain Maréchal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_X_of_France" title="Charles X of France">Charles X</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_XVI" title="Louis XVI">Louis XVI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_XVII" title="Louis XVII">Louis XVII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_XVIII" title="Louis XVIII">Louis XVIII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Antoine,_Duke_of_Enghien" title="Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien">Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Henri,_Prince_of_Cond%C3%A9" title="Louis Henri, Prince of Condé">Louis Henri, Prince of Condé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Joseph,_Prince_of_Cond%C3%A9" title="Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé">Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie_Antoinette" title="Marie Antoinette">Marie Antoinette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoléon Bonaparte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucien_Bonaparte" title="Lucien Bonaparte">Lucien Bonaparte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bonaparte" title="Joseph Bonaparte">Joseph Bonaparte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Fesch" title="Joseph Fesch">Joseph Fesch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9phine_de_Beauharnais" title="Joséphine de Beauharnais">Joséphine de Beauharnais</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joachim_Murat" title="Joachim Murat">Joachim Murat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Sylvain_Bailly" title="Jean Sylvain Bailly">Jean Sylvain Bailly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques-Donatien_Le_Ray_de_Chaumont" title="Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont">Jacques-Donatien Le Ray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guillaume-Chr%C3%A9tien_de_Lamoignon_de_Malesherbes" title="Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes">Guillaume-Chrétien de Malesherbes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-P%C3%A9rigord" title="Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord">Talleyrand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A9sa_Tallien" title="Thérésa Tallien">Thérésa Tallien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gui-Jean-Baptiste_Target" title="Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target">Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Th%C3%A9ot" title="Catherine Théot">Catherine Théot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie_Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Louise_of_Savoy,_Princesse_de_Lamballe" title="Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe">Madame de Lamballe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madame_du_Barry" title="Madame du Barry">Madame du Barry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Auguste_Le_Tonnelier_de_Breteuil" title="Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil">Louis de Breteuil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Ren%C3%A9_de_Chateaubriand" title="François-René de Chateaubriand">de Chateaubriand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Chouan" title="Jean Chouan">Jean Chouan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Charles_de_Lom%C3%A9nie_de_Brienne" title="Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne">Loménie de Brienne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Alexandre_de_Calonne" 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Joseph Sieyès">Abbé Sieyès</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft" title="Mary Wollstonecraft">Mary Wollstonecraft</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div id="Cultural_impact" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Cultural impact</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/La_Marseillaise" title="La Marseillaise">La Marseillaise</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cockade_of_France" title="Cockade of 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