Diderot is also known as the author of the dialogue, Le Neveu de Rameau ( Rameau's Nephew ), upon which many articles and sermons about consumer desire have been based.

" Diderot, in his Encyclopédie article of the same name, went further: " to collect all the knowledge that now lies scattered over the face of the earth, to make known its general structure to the men among we live, and to transmit it to those who will come after us ," to make men not only wiser but also " more virtuous and more happy.

In his own article on the encyclopedia, Diderot also wrote, " Were an analytical dictionary of the sciences and arts nothing more than a methodical combination of their elements, I would still ask whom it behooves to fabricate good elements.

The phrase was used by Diderot and also by Montesquieu ( and by his teacher, the Oratorian friar Nicolas Malebranche ).

He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie.

D ' Alembert was also a Latin scholar of some note and worked in the latter part of his life on a superb translation of Tacitus, from which he received wide praise including that of Denis Diderot.

In 1979, he obtained his doctorate at Paris Diderot University ( French: Université Paris Diderot, also known as Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot ).

Eliade also read with interest the prose of Romain Rolland, Henrik Ibsen, and the Enlightenment thinkers Voltaire and Denis Diderot.

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.

Chief among them were French philosophers such as Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Denis Diderot ( see also: French materialism ).

Madame de Valory published in 1813 a comédie-vaudeville, Greuze, ou l ' accorde de village, to which she prefixed a notice of her grandfather's life and works, and the Salons of Diderot also contain, besides many other particulars, the story at full length of Greuze's quarrel with the Academy.

Sollers also sees himself and his novels in an 18th-century lineage with philosophes like Diderot and Voltaire ; so his break with tradition is not all-encompassing.

He found time to study Greek and Latin, and also wrote several brochures on art: Denis Diderot confided to him the chapter on " Sculpture " in the Encyclopédie, separately released by Falconet as Réflexions sur la sculpture in 1768.

Paris Diderot University, also known as Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, is a French leading University located in Paris, France.

Bourgelat also contributed to Diderot and d ' Alambert's Encyclopédie.

Bibliothèque François Mitterrand is a station of the Paris Métro and RER, named after the former French president, François Mitterrand, and serving the area surrounding the new building of the Bibliothèque nationale de France ( BnF ), whose site near the station is also named after Mitterrand, and the Paris Diderot University.

While in Paris, Rousseau became a close friend of French philosopher Diderot and, beginning with some articles on music in 1749, contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D ' Alembert's great Encyclopédie, the most famous of which was an article on political economy written in 1755.

He later contributed to the first volumes of the Encyclopédie of Jean le Rond d ' Alembert and Diderot.

Impressed by Proudhon's corrections of one of his Latin manuscripts, Fallot sought out his friendship, and the two were soon regularly spending their evenings together discussing French literature by Montaigne, Rabelais, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, and many other authors to whom Proudhon had not been exposed during his years of theological readings.

Notable figures in French literature who never became academicians include Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph de Maistre, Honoré de Balzac, René Descartes, Denis Diderot, Gustave Flaubert, Molière, Marcel Proust, Jules Verne, Theophile Gautier, and Émile Zola.

Fontenelle forms a link between two very widely different periods of French literature, that of Corneille, Racine and Boileau on the one hand, and that of Voltaire, D ' Alembert and Diderot on the other.

Diderot was making the point that the novel ( then a recent introduction to European literature ) seemed random ( in the sense of being invented out of thin air by the author ).

A few years later, back in their own countries, and notably in France, they began to occupy all kinds of places, from state-owned sites (" Lycee Diderot ", where 300 artists worked for 2 years in so-called " Pôle Pi ", dismantled by police in 1998 ), to institutional properties ( Galerie Matignon, almost next door to Prime Minister's Hotel Matignon, and wealthy art galleries ).

Diderot had affairs with the writer Madeleine de Puisieux and with Sophie Volland ( 1716-1784 ).

After signing a letter of submission and promising never to write anything prejudicial against the religion again ( with the result that his most controversial works were henceforth published only after his death ), Diderot was released from the dungeons of the Vincennes fortress after three months.

André Le Breton, a bookseller and printer, approached Diderot with a project for the publication of a translation of Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences into French, first undertaken by the Englishman John Mills, and followed by the German Gottfried Sellius.

Diderot was not a coherent and systematic thinker, but rather " a philosopher in whom all the contradictions of the time struggle with one another " ( Rosenkranz ).

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.

However, Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ( 1728 ), and the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D ' Alembert ( 1751 onwards ), as well as Encyclopædia Britannica and the Conversations-Lexikon, were the first to realize the form we would recognize today, with a comprehensive scope of topics, discussed in depth and organized in an accessible, systematic method.

Rousseau's ideas were the result of an almost obsessive dialogue with writers of the past, filtered in many cases through conversations with Diderot.

According to Diderot, writing much later, Rousseau had originally intended to answer this in the conventional way, but his discussions with Diderot convinced him to propose the paradoxical negative answer that catapulted him into the public eye.

Rousseau's break with the Encyclopedistes coincided with the composition of his three major works, in all of which he emphasized his fervent belief in a spiritual origin of man's soul and the universe, in contradistinction to the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, and d ' Holbach.

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.

The beginnings of the social sciences in the 18th century are reflected in various grand encyclopedia of Diderot, with articles from Rousseau and other pioneers.

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.

The idea of the fourth wall was made explicit by philosopher and critic Denis Diderot and spread in 19th-century theatre with the advent of theatrical realism, which extended the idea to the imaginary boundary between any fictional work and its audience.

His work was later used by Dennis Diderot in the article " Etymologie " in Encyclopédie as a cautionary example of deceptive linking of etymology with mythical history.

In the mid-1750s, Rameau criticised Rousseau's contributions to the musical articles in the Encyclopédie, which led to a quarrel with the leading philosophes d ' Alembert and Diderot.

* French artists Etienne Chambaud and David Jourdan have written " Economie de l ' abondance ou La courte vie et les jours heureux ," a new adventure of Jacques le fataliste et son maître from Diderot, based on the discovery by Jacques of the Shmoo.

France ; Pierre Abelard, Michel de Montaigne, Louis Pasteur, Antoine Lavoisier, Henri Becquerel, René Descartes, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Pierre de Fermat, Blaise Pascal, the Montgolfier brothers, Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d ' Alembert, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Léon Foucault, Auguste and Louis Lumière, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, Jacques Lacan, Luc Montagnier, Albert Jacquard.

* Diderot set an episode of Jacques le fataliste et son maître ( 1773 / 1775 ) in Conches.

Later candidates to the title " modern novel " include Pamela ( 1740 ) by Richardson, Jacques the Fatalist ( 1796 ) by Denis Diderot, Pride and Prejudice ( 1813 ) by Jane Austen, The Red and the Black ( 1831 ) by Stendhal, and Madame Bovary ( 1857 ) by Gustave Flaubert.

D ' Holbach was a Parisian social figure who conducted a famous salon widely attended by many intellectual notables of the day, including Denis Diderot, Jean Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Benjamin Franklin.

During a dinner at the home of statesman Jacques Necker, a remark was made to Diderot which left him speechless at the time, because, he explains, " l ’ homme sensible, comme moi, tout entier à ce qu ’ on lui objecte, perd la tête et ne se retrouve qu ’ au bas de l ’ escalier " (" a sensitive man, such as myself, overwhelmed by the argument levelled against him, becomes confused and can only think clearly again he reaches the bottom of the stairs ").