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.

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

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 Essais sur la peinture was described by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as " a magnificent work, which speaks even more helpfully to the poet than to the painter, though to the painter too it is as a blazing torch.

" 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.

The death of his sister, a nun, from overwork in the convent may have affected Diderot's opinion of religion.

Diderot's travel from Paris to Saint Petersburg in 1773-1774.

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

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 interest expressed itself in didactic and sympathetic form.

A favorite classical author of Diderot's, Horace's words Vertumnis, quotquot sunt, natus iniquis are quoted at the top of the Nephew.

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.

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.

Realizing the inherent problems with the model of knowledge he had created, Diderot's view of his own success in writing the Encyclopédie were far from ecstatic.

Diderot's great Encyclopédie reshaped the European world view.

Foreign printed sources such as the Descriptions des Arts et Métiers and Diderot's Encyclopédie explained foreign methods with fine engraved plates.

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

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.

Their popularity inspired Diderot's Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville ( 1772 ), a scathing critique of European sexual hypocrisy and colonial exploitation.

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.

At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.

Bible scholar Frank Stagg and Classicist Evelyn Stagg write that husband-wife equality produces the most intimate, wholesome and mutually fulfilling marriages.

Because of this intimate contact between the player's hand and the production of sound, the clavichord has been referred to as the most intimate of keyboard instruments.

As movies have overdone their explorations of the representation of violence, the intimate space of a theatre where actors hurt themselves and each other, at times with extra help from the theatrical illusion, might become again the most genuine stage of fears.

He wrote, " Being thus finally woven, as it were, into the most intimate fabric of the organism, the once novel character can no longer be withdrawn with impunity, and may have become vitally necessary.

Left-wing journalists outed Adolf Hitler's closest ally Ernst Röhm in the early 1930s, causing Brand to write, " when someone — as teacher, priest, representative, or statesman — would like to set in the most damaging way the intimate love contacts of others under degrading control — in that moment his own love-life also ceases to be a private matter and forfeits every claim to remain protected hence-forward from public scrutiny and suspicious oversight.

A rare film which can only be viewed at the Library of Congress and the Museum of Broadcasting, Noon Wine is today considered one of Peckinpah's most intimate works, revealing his dramatic potential and artistic depth.

* Wang Mang, the power behind the throne, is granted the " Nine Awards of Imperial Favor " — a set of ceremonial robes, sceptres, weapons and privileges bestowed only on those in the most intimate relationship with the emperor.

The most intimate companion of a ruler was called the favourite.

Women mailed descriptions of the most intimate of relationship problems to The Voice in the tens of thousands per week ; sponsors Musterole ointment and Haley's M – O laxative enjoyed sales increases of several hundred percent in just the first month on The Voice Of Experience.

Mr Milne and Mr Rickman were, no doubt, Telford's most intimate friends.

Marl was originally an old term loosely applied to a variety of materials, most of which occur as loose, earthy deposits consisting chiefly of an intimate mixture of clay and calcium carbonate, formed under freshwater conditions ; specifically an earthy substance containing 35-65 % clay and 65-35 % carbonate.

Share with few your most intimate plans.

This vicious fish introduces itself into the most intimate parts of the human body, maintaining itself there by poisonous barbs while it feeds on the soft membranes ".

The ambassador of the neutral Republic of Venice, by his office the most detached of the foreign envoys, soon wrote home: " My Lord Robert Dudley is ... very intimate with Her Majesty.

Promoting and protecting these rights requires considerable cultural fluency because UNFPA works in some of the most sensitive and intimate spheres of human existence, including sexuality, gender relations and population issues.

Freud considered Rank, with whom he was more intimate intellectually than his own sons, to be the most brilliant of his Viennese disciples.

Christine de Pisan's biography, commissioned by Philip the Bold in 1404, is a source of most of the intimate details of the king's life of which we are aware, but also provides a moral example for his successors.

Antiochus was on most intimate terms with Caligula, and he and King Agrippa I are spoken of as the instructors of the emperor in the art of tyranny.

In the traditional Mayan ( and Mesoamerican ) community, one of the most important functions was that of rain maker, which presupposed an intimate acquaintance with ( and thus, initiation by ) the rain deities, and a knowledge of their places and movements.

I had a ten year thing with this girl and I would often wonder why, even in those most intimate moments of our relationship, I would still feel really lonely.

Grosseteste numbered among his most intimate friends the Franciscan teacher, Adam Marsh.

Du ' a literature reaches its most lyrical form in the Munajat, or ' whispered intimate prayers ' such as those of Ibn ' Ata Allah al-Iskandari.