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Approximate size of the Encyclopédie: 17 volumes of articles, issued from 1751 to 1765; 11 volumes of illustrations, issued from 1762 to 1772; 18,000 pages of text; 75,000 entries 44,000 main articles; 28,000 secondary articles; 2,500 illustration indices; 20,000,000 words in total
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Seventeen volumes of the Encyclopédie ’s text were published between 1751 and 1765; 11 volumes of plates were also published between the years 1762 and 1772, making a total of 28 volumes.
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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. It appeared between 1935 and 1966. Volumes [ edit ]
The Encyclopédie française (begun 1935) was an outstanding collection of monographs by well-known scholars and specialists, arranged in classified form and available in loose-leaf binders, supplemented by a continuously revised index. Its 21 volumes, each under the direction of a different authority, dealt with (1) human….
D'Alembert is elected to the Académie Française. 1755 (November). Volume V, preceded by the Éloge de Montesquieu by d'Alembert. 1756 (May). Volume VI of the Encyclopédie preceded by another Avertissment written by d'Alembert. (August). D'Alembert visits Voltaire at les Délices near Geneva. They discuss the article Genève. 1757 (5 January).
pour une Encyclopédie en 10 volumes dont 2 de planches. Juin 1751 : parution du premier volume, suivi d’un volume par an jusqu’en 1757. Jaucourt collaborateur dès 1752. Février 1752 : interdiction des deux premiers volumes. 1757-1758 : attentat contre le roi et durcissement des attaques contre l’Encyclopédie. Retrait de D’Alembert.
In many earlier encyclopaedias the illustrations were often more decorative than useful, but from the end of the 17th century the better encyclopaedias began to include engraved plates of great accuracy and some of great beauty. The Encyclopédie is particularly distinguished for its superb volume of plates—reprinted in the 20th century. In ...
