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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 ...
A Portrait of a Young Artist by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, presumed to be of Jacques-André Naigeon. Jacques-André Naigeon (15 July 1738, Paris – 28 February 1810, Paris) was a French artist, atheist–materialist philosopher, editor and man of letters best known for his contributions to the Encyclopédie and for reworking Baron d'Holbach's and Diderot's manuscripts.
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
Simone Veil (French pronunciation: [simɔn vɛj] ⓘ; née Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office.
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, revised editions ...
Alexandre Deleyre. Analyse de la philosophie du chancelier François Bacon, vol. 1, 1756. Alexandre Deleyre (5 or 10 January 1726, Portets near Bordeaux – 10 March 1797, [1] Paris aged 71) was an 18th-century French man of letters and translator from Latin. He was a friend of J.J. Rousseau, who used his translations of Lucretius for compositions.
Philosophical goals Cover of Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes, an encyclopaedia of 18th-century anticolonialism. The ideal figure of the Lumières was a philosopher, a man of letters with a social function of exercising his reason in all domains to guide his and others' conscience, to advocate a value system and use it in discussing the problems of the time.
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 ...