Encyclopédie

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Enlightenment work encyclopedia reference work

The Encyclopédie was an influential 18th-century French reference work edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert that sought to compile and disseminate Enlightenment knowledge, science, and philosophy.

Aliases (8)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Enlightenment work → encyclopedia → reference work →
aim	to compile and disseminate human knowledge → to promote Enlightenment ideas →
alternateName	Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers →
censorship	banned by the French government in 1759 → placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum →
coEditor	Jean le Rond d’Alembert →
countryOfOrigin	France →
editor	Denis Diderot → Jean le Rond d’Alembert →
editorInChief	Denis Diderot →
hasGenre	encyclopedic dictionary → non-fiction →
hasPart	Encyclopédie: plates volumes → Encyclopédie: text volumes →
ideology	anti-clericalism → rationalism → secularism →
influenced	French Revolution → modern encyclopedias → secular education →
movement	Enlightenment →
notableContributor	Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot → Baron d’Holbach → Jean-Jacques Rousseau → Louis de Jaucourt → Voltaire →
numberOfArticles	over 70,000 →
numberOfContributors	over 130 →
numberOfPlateVolumes	11 →
numberOfTextVolumes	17 →
numberOfVolumes	28 →
originalLanguage	French →
placeOfPublication	Paris →
printingMethod	letterpress printing →
publicationEndYear	1772 →
publicationStartYear	1751 →
publisher	André Le Breton → Antoine-Claude Briasson → Laurent Durand → Michel-Antoine David →
subject	arts → crafts → philosophy → science →
subtitle	Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers →
timePeriod	18th century →

Referenced by (22)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
André Le Breton → Antoine-Claude Briasson → Denis Diderot → Jean d’Alembert → Laurent Durand → Louis de Jaucourt ("Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers") → Michel-Antoine David ("Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers") → Voltaire ("Dictionnaire philosophique") →	notableWork
Baron d'Holbach → Laurent Durand ("Encyclopédie project") →	associatedWith
Enlightenment encyclopedism → Enlightenment encyclopedism ("Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers") →	hasKeyWork
Encyclopédie ("Encyclopédie: plates volumes") → Encyclopédie ("Encyclopédie: text volumes") →	hasPart
Encyclopédie ("Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers") →	alternateName
Jean d’Alembert →	coEditorOf
Louis de Jaucourt →	contributedTo
Republic of Letters ("Republic of Letters and Diderot's Encyclopédie") →	hasKeyConcept
Enlightenment philosophy →	hasKeyPublication
French Enlightenment →	hasWork
Age of Enlightenment →	majorWork
Encyclopédie ("Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers") →	subtitle