Denis Diderot and D ' Alembert used some of them within the French encyclopedia, where his name is cited as " P. Consaqua ".

At the Salon of 1759 he exhibited nine paintings ; it was the first Salon to be commented upon by Denis Diderot, who would prove to be a great admirer and public champion of Chardin's work.

Though his work was broad and rigorous, it did not bring Diderot riches.

Diderot never saw the work through to publication during his lifetime, but there is every indication it was of continual interest to him.

Translations of the work began to appear in all the major European languages almost upon its publication, and Sterne influenced European writers as diverse as Diderot and the German Romanticists.

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.

Diderot indeed is credited with a third of this work, which was characterized by Voltaire as " du réchauffé avec de la declamation.

It had incredibly negative effects on the rest of the philosophes, in particular, Denis Diderot, and the great work he was doing on the Encyclopedie.

Indications of this change had been already offered in the work of Marivaux, and La Chaussée's plays led naturally to the domestic drama of Diderot and of Sedaine.

( 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.

The Encyclopédie of Diderot and d ' Alembert owed its inception to a French translation of Chambers's work.

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.

Beckmann's approach was that of a scholar working in the Enlightenment, and his analytical writings on technology mirrored the work of Diderot and his Encyclopedie, and the Descriptions des Arts et Metiers.

Relković's prison years became his Lehrjahre, his educational period: a voracious but unsystematic reader, he studied many works by leading Enlightenment writers ( Voltaire, Bayle, Diderot ), as well as Polish poet Jan Kochanowski's didactic epic Satir-which became the model for his most famous work.

She mingled in literary circles in Paris, aided by her cousin and sister-in-law, Louise d ' Épinay, who was in a relationship with Frédéric Melchior, baron de Grimm, editor of the handwritten literary journal in which Diderot circulated much of his work.

Mme d ' Épinay often helped with editorial work and was part of the coterie around Diderot, Grimm and the Baron d ' Holbach.

Upon his return to Paris he exhibited his work, which Diderot worshipped ; the success was so resounding that King Louis XVI of France allowed him to stay in the Louvre, a very ancient privilege desired by artists.

The monumental work of the philosophes was the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, the famous Encyclopedia of Diderot

Diderot envisioned the perfect encyclopedia as more than the sum of its parts.

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.

" Diderot viewed the ideal encyclopedia as an index of connections.

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.

This comparison with a lion is suggested by various converging sources: Deroy and Mulon's dictionary of French place names, Mistral's comprehensive Occitan dictionary, Diderot and D ' Alembert's famous French encyclopedia and several texts in Latin since the 13th century.

" 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.

If " laws are good, morals are good " said Diderot.

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.

Secularism draws its intellectual roots from Greek and Roman philosophers such as Marcus Aurelius and Epicurus ; medieval Muslim polymaths such as Ibn Rushd ; Enlightenment thinkers such as Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine ; and more recent freethinkers, agnostics, and atheists such as Robert Ingersoll and Bertrand Russell.

Boucher gained lasting notoriety through such private commissions for wealthy collectors and, after the ever-moral Diderot expressed his disapproval, his reputation came under increasing critical attack during the last of his creative years.

With their Enlightenment rhetoric and their balance between topics of socio-political and literary interest, the anonymous contributors held the interest of the educated classes in Italy, introducing recent thought such as that of Voltaire and Diderot.

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

There La Mettrie wrote the Discours sur le bonheur ( 1748 ), which appalled leading Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire, Diderot and D ' Holbach due to its explicitly hedonistic sensualist principles which prioritised the unbridled pursuit of pleasure above all other things.

Other important works using a similar structure followed, such as the Encyclopédie by Diderot and Jean d ' Alembert.

" In the 18th century, when progressive ideas with respect to human rights had been first put forward in Europe, translations of Chinese philosophers had been known to, and had inspired, such thinkers as Voltaire, Quesnay and Diderot in their humanistic revolt against feudalism ," he told the UN General Assembly in 1948.

The popular enthusiasm was unaffected by the judgment of calmer critics such as Diderot and Voltaire, who pointed out that the glorification of France was not best effected by a picture of defeat.

Toward the end of his life, Pichard adapted classic erotic stories such as Les Exploits d ' un jeune Don Juan by Guillaume Apollinaire, The Kama-Sutra by Vatsyayana, Trois filles de leur mère by Pierre Louÿs, La Religieuse by Denis Diderot and Germinal by Emile Zola.

The important works of the philosophes belonged to a variety of different genres, such as the tale illustrating a particular philosophical point ;( Zadig ( 1747 ) or Candide ( 1759 ), both by Voltaire in 1759 ); or satire on French life disguised as letters from an exotic country ( Lettres persanes by Montesquieu in 1721 ); or essays ( The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu in 1748, An Essay on Tolerance by Voltaire in 1763 ; The Social Contract by Rousseau in 1762 ; The Supplement to a voyage of Bougainville by Diderot, or The History of the Two Indias by the Abbé Guillaume-Thomas Raynal ).

In Paris he met and befriended such Enlightenment figures as Denis Diderot, the Baron de Montesquieu and Voltaire.

It attracted the attention of prominent thinkers such as Denis Diderot and Immanuel Kant.

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 ").

Pierre Bayle ( 1647 – 1706 ), French philosopher and critic, whose Dictionnaire historique et critique ( Historical and Critical Dictionary, 1697 ) greatly influenced the French Encyclopedists and the rationalist philosophers of the eighteenth century, such as Voltaire and Diderot, esteemed her highly, writing: "... for a queen to grant her protection to people persecuted for opinions which she believes to be false ; to open a sanctuary to them ; to preserve them from the flames prepared for them ; to furnish them with a subsistence ; liberally to relieve the troubles and inconveniences of their exile, is an heroic magnanimity which has hardly any precedent ..."