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Denis and Diderot's
The publication of Denis Diderot's and Jean d ' Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers marked the crowning intellectual achievement of the epoch.
Instead of taking on the classical criticism of art that involved knowledge of color, composition and line, Gautier was strongly influenced by Denis Diderot's idea that the critic should have the ability to describe the art so as the reader can " see " the art through his description.
Jacques, the title character of Denis Diderot's " Jacques the Fatalist ", is said to have been severely wounded in the knee while serving in the French Army at the Battle of Fontenoy.
* Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia first volume appears.
Denis Diderot's book Supplément au voyage de Bougainville retells the story of Bougainville's landing on Tahiti, narrated by an anonymous reader to one of his friends ; this fictional approach to Bougainville's expedition, along with Diderot's description of the Tahitians as noble savages, was meant to criticise Western ways of living and thinking.
It is also manifested in Denis Diderot's statement that, whatever proofs are offered for the existence of God in Christianity or any other religion, " an Imam can reason the same way ".
Monk's tale was clearly modeled on the gothic novels that were popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries, a literary genre that had already been used to stoke anti-Catholic sentiments in such works as Matthew Lewis's The Monk and Denis Diderot's La Religieuse.
According to Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie, the style of Royal Highness was created on the insistence of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, Cardinal-Infante of Spain, a younger son of King Philip III of Spain.
The caption echoes that of Denis Diderot's story Ceci n ' est pas un conte (" This is not a story ").
Thus, Denis Diderot's short story, " The Two Friends from Bourbonne " ( 1770 ), begins " There used to be two men here who might be called the Damon and Pythias of Bourbonne.
This distinction between empirical and rational psychology was picked up in Denis Diderot's ( 1713 – 1780 ) Encyclopédie ( 1751 – 1784 ) and was popularized in France by Maine de Biran ( 1766 – 1824 ).
Prior to these films, the only expression of such fantasy material was found in the many " true adventure " men's magazines such as Argosy in the 1950s and 1960s, although a plausible case could be made that Denis Diderot's novel The Nun anticipated the genre.
Her first piece, The Chapter of Accidents, a three-act opera based on Denis Diderot's Le père de famille, was produced by George Colman the Elder at the Haymarket Theatre on 5 August 1780 and was an immediate success.
An example of this is Denis Diderot's novel Jacques le fataliste ( literally: James the Fatalist ; sometimes referred to as Jacques the Fatalist or Jacques the Servant and his Master ).
This name for the phenomenon comes from French encyclopedist and philosopher Denis Diderot's description of such a situation in his Paradoxe sur le comédien.
Denis Diderot's La Religieuse is a later example of this theme.

Denis and Encyclopédie
French Enlightenment masterpieces such as Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon ’ s Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière ( begun in 1749 ) and Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ’ s Encyclopédie ( volumes added between 1751 and 1772 ) thus became Ampère ’ s schoolmasters.
The Encyclopédie was edited by Jean le Rond d ' Alembert and Denis Diderot and published in 17 volumes of articles, issued from 1751 to 1765, and 11 volumes of illustrations, issued from 1762 to 1772.
In part, it was conceived in reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ( published 1751 – 1772 ), which had been inspired by Chambers's Cyclopaedia ( first edition 1728 ).
The philosopher Denis Diderot was Editor in Chief of the famous Enlightenment accomplishment, the 72, 000 article Encyclopédie ( 1751 – 1772 ).
In France, Enlightenment was based in the salons and culminated in the great Encyclopédie ( 1751 – 72 ) edited by Denis Diderot ( 1713 – 1784 ) with contributions by hundreds of leading philosophes cousins.
He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie.
* Denis Diderot ( 1713 – 1784 ), the philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, and the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopédie.
The school's first director, from 1747 until 1794, was Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, engineer, civil service administrator and a contributor to the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.
According to Denis Diderot in the article " Encyclopédie ", the Encyclopédies aim was " to change the way people think ".
Moreover, she defended the Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.
* Denis Diderot completes Encyclopédie.
Apart from his idylls and his elegies, Chénier also experimented with didactic and philosophic verse, and when he commenced his Hermes in 1783 his ambition was to condense the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot into a long poem somewhat after the manner of Lucretius.
In France, the concept first appeared in publication in 1765 when Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d ' Alembert and Voltaire included an article on Libre-Penseur in their Encyclopédie.
* Commencement of publication in Paris of the Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers edited by Denis Diderot and Jean d ' Alembert.
The " figurative system of human knowledge ", sometimes known as the tree of Diderot and d ' Alembert, was a tree developed to represent the structure of knowledge itself, produced for the Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d ' Alembert and Denis Diderot.
" – Denis Diderot, " Encyclopédie " ( 1755 )
It is named after Denis Diderot, joint editor of the Encyclopédie, and Reuilly, a former hamlet now integrated into the XIIth arrondissement.
-- Denis Diderot, “ Droit Naturel ” article in the Encyclopédie.
( ibid ) A thorough overview of the art with illustrations of marblers at work, and images of the tools of the trade was published in the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.
Chambers's Cyclopaedia in turn became the inspiration for the landmark Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert, which owed its inception to a proposed French translation of Chambers ' work begun in 1744 by John Mills, assisted by Gottfried Sellius.
It was a revised and much expanded version, arranged by disciplines, of the originally alphabetically arranged Encyclopédie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond D ' Alembert.
Denis Diderot, Encyclopédie, 18th century.

Denis and is
It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.
' Denis answered and said: ' Sir, he is not here ; but yield you to me and I shall bring you to him.
Denis Diderot is the third from the right
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Denis Colin Leary ( born August 18, 1957 ) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and film producer.
Leary received an honorary doctorate and spoke briefly at his alma mater's undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 16, 2005 ; he is thus credited as " Dr. Denis Leary " on the cover of his 2009 book, Why We Suck.
is: Denis Leary
In the last decade of the 20th century the American poet Denis Garrison developed a two-line 17 syllable variation of the image couplet with his Crystalline, where euphony is the key component and a title thereto optional.
France is represented by prefect Denis Labbe.
It was founded in 1985 by Denis Howe and is hosted by Imperial College London.
According to Denis Sinor, this reference indicates that the Göktürks were specialized in metallurgy, though it is unclear if they were miners or, indeed, blacksmiths.
She is – along with St. Denis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis IX, and St. Theresa of Lisieux – one of the patron saints of France.
The French Baroque school is exemplified by composers such as Ennemond Gaultier ( 1575 – 1651 ), Denis Gaultier ( 1597 / 1603 – 1672 ), François Dufaut ( before 1604 – before 1672 ) and many others.
There followed the materialist and atheist Jean Meslier, Julien Offroy de La Mettrie, Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d ' Holbach, Denis Diderot, and other French Enlightenment thinkers ; as well as in England, John " Walking " Stewart, whose insistence that all matter is endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth.
* Sir Denis Nayland Smith is Fu Manchu's nemesis from the novels.
The main airport is the international Roland Garros Airport located close to Saint Denis and the second one is the Aéroport de Pierrefond, located near Saint-Pierre in the south of the island.
* In the 1993 Denis Leary song " Asshole ", Leary states he is " going to get the Duke ( John Wayne ), John Cassavetes, Lee Marvin, Sam Peckinpah and a case of whiskey then drive down to Texas " before being cut off by a bandmate and getting called an asshole.
* 1136: Suger begins rebuilding the abbey church at St Denis north of Paris, which is regarded as the first major Gothic building.
* March 1 – The University of Coimbra is founded in Lisbon, Portugal by King Denis of Portugal ; it moves to Coimbra in 1308.
* The Saint Denis Basilica is completed in Paris.
Christophe Guy Denis " Christopher " Lambert ( born 29 March 1957 ) is an American-born French
He is a supporting character portrayed by Denis Lawson in the original Star Wars trilogy.
Antilles is the player's character in the Rogue Squadron and Rogue Leader video games ( reprised by Denis Lawson in the latter ) and is a playable character in Rebel Strike.

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