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The Encyclopédie française was a French encyclopedia designed by Anatole de Monzie and Lucien Febvre.It appeared between 1935 and 1966. Volumes. I. L'Outillage mental. Pensée, langage, mathém
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Romain (dates of birth and death unknown) was a French engineer and contributor to the Encyclopédie during the eighteenth century and the Age of Enlightenment . Living in Martinique, in 1734 Le Romain drew up a topographic map of the island for the French government. In 1740 he was sent as an assistant engineer to ...
Encyclopédie. Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt ( French: [də ʒokuʁ]; 16 September 1704 – 3 February 1779) was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie. He wrote about 17,000 articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopaedia ...
Encyclopédie. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers ( French for 'Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts'), [1] better known as Encyclopédie ( French: [ɑ̃siklɔpedi] ), was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements ...
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert [1] ( / dæləmˈbɛər / dal-əm-BAIR; [2] French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛːʁ]; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie. [3]
1 March 1985 (age 39) Strasbourg, France. Political party. Renaissance. Children. 2. Alma mater. Emlyon Business School. Prisca Thevenot ( née Balasubramaniam; born 1 March 1985) is a French politician of Renaissance who has been the deputy minister for democratic renewal and spokeswoman of the Government in the Attal government since January ...
Nobel Prize in Literature. 2008. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio ( French: [ʒɑ̃ maʁi ɡystav lə klezjo]; 13 April 1940), usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, of French and Mauritian nationality, is a writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal and the 2008 ...
La Grande Encyclopédie, inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres, et des arts ( The Great Encyclopedia: a systematic inventory of science, letters, and the arts) is a 31-volume encyclopedia published in France from 1886 to 1902 by H. Lamirault, and later by the Société Anonyme de la Grande Encyclopédie (Grande Encyclopédie Company).