• The Encyclopédistes (French: [ɑ̃siklɔpedist]) (also known in British English as Encyclopaedists, or in U.S. English as Encyclopedists) were members of...
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    December 1799) was a French historian, writer and a member of the Encyclopédistes movement. He was born of poor parents at Bort, Limousin (today in Corrèze)...
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    Western society. In the 18th century, writers such as Voltaire and the Encyclopédistes wrote biting critiques of both religion and the Catholic Church. One...
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    Geoffrin played host to many of the most influential Philosophes and Encyclopédistes of her time. Her association with several prominent dignitaries and...
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    revised editions, and translations. It had many writers, known as the Encyclopédistes. It was edited by Denis Diderot and, until 1759, co-edited by Jean...
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    revised editions, and translations. It had many writers, known as the Encyclopédistes. It was edited by Denis Diderot and, until 1759, co-edited by Jean...
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    uncontroversial topics. Bayle is commonly regarded as a forerunner of the Encyclopédistes of the mid-18th century. A Huguenot, Bayle fled to the Dutch Republic...
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    remained silent on the matter. Naturalism was also advanced by prominent Encyclopédistes. Baron d'Holbach wrote the polemic System of Nature, claiming that...
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    Dictionnaire Historique et Critique influenced many of the Enlightenment Encyclopédistes. By the mid-18th century the French Enlightenment had found a focus...
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    motorcycle racer Sylvain Guintoli. Encyclopédiste Antoine Penchenier (died in 1761) at an unknown date. Physician and Encyclopédiste Jean-Joseph Menuret (1739–1815)...
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    spontaneous) face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians List of Wikipedia people Encyclopédistes "Hella ridic new words to make you lolz: ODO August 2012 update". OxfordWords...
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    and detested the insincere conversation and shallow atheism of the Encyclopédistes whom he met at her table. Wounded feelings gave rise to a bitter three-way...
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    the Age of Enlightenment, in particular Denis Diderot and the other Encyclopédistes. The first edition of Bayle's dictionary, published in 1697, comprised...
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    remarks at Procope were repeated in the police reports. Not all the Encyclopédistes drank forty cups of coffee a day like Voltaire, who mixed his with...
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    Succession. In the middle of the eighteenth century the ideas of the French Encyclopédistes began to gain popularity in the region. Bishop François-Charles de...
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  • (1707–1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste. MPC · 7420 7421 Kusaka 1992 HL Hideaki Kusaka (1924–1991), an amateur...
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