Encyclopédie

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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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Enlightenment work
encyclopedia
reference work
aim to compile and disseminate human knowledge
to promote Enlightenment ideas
alternateName Encyclopédie
surface form: 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 d’Alembert
surface form: Jean le Rond d’Alembert
countryOfOrigin France
editor Denis Diderot
Jean d’Alembert
surface form: Jean le Rond d’Alembert
editorInChief Denis Diderot
hasGenre encyclopedic dictionary
non-fiction
hasPart Encyclopédie self-linksurface differs
surface form: Encyclopédie: plates volumes

Encyclopédie self-linksurface differs
surface form: Encyclopédie: text volumes
ideology anti-clericalism
rationalism
secularism
influenced French Revolution
modern encyclopedias
secular education
movement Age of Enlightenment
surface form: Enlightenment
notableContributor Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
Baron d'Holbach
surface form: 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 Encyclopédie self-linksurface differs
surface form: Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
timePeriod 18th century

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Age of Enlightenment majorWork Encyclopédie
Republic of Letters hasKeyConcept Encyclopédie
this entity surface form: Republic of Letters and Diderot's Encyclopédie
Encyclopédie subtitle Encyclopédie self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
Encyclopédie hasPart Encyclopédie self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Encyclopédie: plates volumes
Encyclopédie hasPart Encyclopédie self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Encyclopédie: text volumes
Encyclopédie alternateName Encyclopédie
this entity surface form: Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
Voltaire notableWork Encyclopédie
this entity surface form: Dictionnaire philosophique
Denis Diderot notableWork Encyclopédie
Baron d'Holbach associatedWith Encyclopédie
Enlightenment encyclopedism hasKeyWork Encyclopédie
this entity surface form: Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
Jean d’Alembert notableWork Encyclopédie
Jean d’Alembert coEditorOf Encyclopédie
André Le Breton notableWork Encyclopédie
Louis de Jaucourt notableWork Encyclopédie
this entity surface form: Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
Louis de Jaucourt contributedTo Encyclopédie
Michel-Antoine David notableWork Encyclopédie
this entity surface form: Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
Antoine-Claude Briasson notableWork Encyclopédie
Laurent Durand notableWork Encyclopédie
Laurent Durand associatedWith Encyclopédie
this entity surface form: Encyclopédie project
French Enlightenment hasWork Encyclopédie
Ephraim Chambers influenced Encyclopédie
Discours préliminaire de l’Encyclopédie partOf Encyclopédie
this entity surface form: Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson supported Encyclopédie
this entity surface form: Encyclopédie project
Age of Reason relatedWork Encyclopédie
Diderot’s early philosophical writings associatedWith Encyclopédie
this entity surface form: Encyclopédie project
Jean-François Marmontel employer Encyclopédie
Jean-François Marmontel contributedTo Encyclopédie
this entity surface form: Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers