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  1. The Encyclopédistes ( French: [ɑ̃siklɔpedist]) (also known in British English as Encyclopaedists, [1] or in U.S. English as Encyclopedists) were members of the Société des gens de lettres, a French writers' society, who contributed to the development of the Encyclopédie from June 1751 to December 1765 under the editors Denis Diderot and ...

  2. The Encyclopédie was a literary and philosophical enterprise with profound political, social, and intellectual repercussions in France just prior to the Revolution. Its contributors were called Encyclopédistes. The Encyclopédie was inspired by the success of Ephraim Chambers’ Cyclopaedia; or An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ...

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  3. Séquence. L’ Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers est une encyclopédie française, éditée de 1751 à 1772 sous la direction de Denis Diderot et, partiellement, de Jean Le Rond d'Alembert . L’ Encyclopédie est un ouvrage majeur du XVIIIe siècle et la première encyclopédie française.

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  4. 4 days ago · Quick Reference. The great 18th-century French enterprise, the Encyclopédie was designed as a synoptic description of the branches of human knowledge. The leading figures behind the enterprise were Diderot and d'Alembert, and contributors included Holbach, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Voltaire, sometimes known collectively as the encyclopedists.

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  6. ENCYCLOPEDISTS. Originally the term encyclopedists referred to the contributors to the French Encyclopédie, but it has come to be used for all the 18th-century Frenchmen who shared the scientific, political, and religious views popularized in that work. Origins of the Encyclopedia. The Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des ...

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