Diderot's celebrated Lettre sur les aveugles à l ' usage de ceux qui voient (" Letter on the Blind ") ( 1749 ), introduced him to the world as a daringly original thinker.

Diderot's miscellaneous pieces range from a graceful trifle like the Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre ( Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown ) up to Le rêve de D ' Alembert, where he plunges into the depths of the controversy as to the ultimate constitution of matter and the meaning of life.

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.

Her name was Angélique, after both Diderot's dead mother and sister.

Jean le Rond d ' Alembert was persuaded to become Diderot's colleague ; the requisite permission was procured from the government.

However, Diderot's work was plagued by controversy from the beginning ; the project was suspended by the courts in 1752.

At the last moment, when his immense work was drawing to an end, he encountered a crowning mortification: he discovered that the bookseller, fearing the government's displeasure, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages that he considered too dangerous.

Although the Encyclopédie was Diderot's monumental piece, he was the author of many other works that sowed nearly every field of intellectual interest with new and creative ideas.

Diderot's most intimate friend was the philologist Friedrich Melchior Grimm.

" Jean-Baptiste Greuze was Diderot's favorite contemporary artist.

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.

It was during this period that Gorky, along with Lunacharsky, Bogdanov and Vladimir Bazarov developed the idea of an Encyclopedia of Russian History as a socialist version of Diderot's Encyclopedia.

( where Gigartina was used ) and in Ireland around 400 A. D. Carrageen gelatin can be prepared at home using the traditional recipe found in Diderot's encyclopedie and used for centuries.

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.

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.

His triumph was sustained at the Salon of 1857, when he exhibited nine pictures, and drawings ; among them the Young Man of the Time of the Regency, The Painter, The Shoeing Smith, The Musician, and A Reading at Diderot's.

Ambert is famous for its fourme-d ' Ambert cheese, its paper mills ( the first edition of Diderot's Encyclopédie was printed on paper made in Ambert ) and its circular town hall ( popularized by Jules Romain in his novel Les copains ).

" Diderot's favorite painter was Jean-Baptiste Greuze.

Diderot's " The Salon of 1765 " was one of the first real attempts to capture art in words.

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.

Inspired by an article in Diderot's Encyclopédie, Smith described the production of a pin in the following way:

* To the Hermitage, by Malcolm Bradbury, retells the story of Diderot's journey to Russia to meet Catherine the Great in her Hermitage.

* Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie is temporarily suppressed by the French government.

It has since been covered by several notable texts, including Diderot's Encyclopédie, Voltaire and the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, and also by the 2004 book The Last Duel by Eric Jager.

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.

It developed some of the ideas mentioned in an earlier work, the article Economie Politique ( Discourse on Political Economy ), featured in Diderot's Encyclopédie.

Regardless, however, of the extent of Diderot's contribution to the System of Nature, it is on the basis of this work that d ' Holbach's philosophy has been called " the culmination of French materialism and atheism.

He wrote several articles for Diderot's Encyclopédie, published an essay on " Luxury " in 1764, brought out an edition of The Seasons with a selection of his other poetry and some short stories in 1769, and completed a multi-volume philosophical work in 1797-98, called Principe des mœurs chez toutes les nations ou Catéchisme universel ( Principle of morals among all nations, or universal catechism ).

Janin travelled ( picking up in one of his journeys a country house at Lucca in a lottery ), and wrote accounts of his travels ; he wrote numerous tales and novels, and composed many other works, including Fin d ' un monde et du neveu de Rameau ( 1861 ), in which, under the guise of a sequel to Diderot's work, he showed his familiarity with the late 18th century.

The climax of this trend is represented in French philosopher Diderot's Les Bijoux indiscrets ( 1747 ) in which a magic ring is employed to get women's vaginas to give an account of their intimate sexual histories.

In his Discourse on Political Economy, Rousseau explicitly credits Diderot's Encyclopédie article " Droit Naturel " as the source of " the luminous concept " of the general will, of which he maintains his own thoughts are simply a development.

Diderot's intention in writing the dialogue is disputed ; whether it is merely a satire on contemporary manners, or a reduction of the theory of self-interest to an absurdity, or the application of irony to the ethics of ordinary convention, or a mere setting for a discussion about music, or a vigorous dramatic sketch of a parasite and a human original.

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.

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 ".

The caption echoes that of Denis Diderot's story Ceci n ' est pas un conte (" This is not a story ").

Drawing on Diderot's criticism, Fried argues that whenever a self-consciousness of viewing exists, absorption is compromised, and theatricality results.

He was a close friend of Diderot's, and he is mentioned often in the correspondence between the Abbé Galiani and Mme d ' Epinay.

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 ).

Denis Diderot's La Religieuse is a later example of this theme.