Encyclopédistes - Wikipedia Encyclopédistes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "The Encyclopaedists" redirects here. For the story by Isaac Asimov, see Foundation (Asimov novel). The Encyclopédistes (French: [ɑ̃siklɔpedist]) (also known in British English as Encyclopaedists,[1] or in U.S. English as Encyclopedists) were members of the Société des gens de lettres, a French writers' society, who contributed to the development of the Encyclopédie from June 1751 to December 1765 under the editors Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. Contents 1 History 2 Contributors 2.1 Denis Diderot 2.2 Le chevalier de Jaucourt 2.3 D'Alembert 3 Alphabetical 4 Number of articles 5 By letter 6 See also 7 References History[edit] The composition of the 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates of the Encyclopédie was the work of over 150 authors belonging, in large part, to the intellectual group known as the philosophes. They promoted the advancement of science and secular thought and supported tolerance, rationality, and open-mindedness of the Enlightenment. More than a hundred encyclopédistes have been identified.[2] They were not a unified group, neither in ideology nor social class.[3] Below some of the contributors are listed in alphabetical order, by the number of articles that they wrote, and by the identifying "signature" by which their contributions were identified in the Encyclopédie. Beyond the known collaborators – at least in name – many articles are not signed and certain authors expressed a desire to remain anonymous. Other authors, Allard or Dubuisson for example, remain a mystery to us. Moreover, the sporadic research into the quotations, borrowings, and plagiarisms in the Encyclopédie – the illustrations as well as the text – illuminate a group of "indirect" collaborators. Among some excellent men, there were some weak, average, and absolutely bad ones. From this mixture in the publication, we find the draft of a schoolboy next to a masterpiece. — Denis Diderot A machine-generated and incomplete list of authors sorted by number of posts can be found at the project ARTFL. There are lists by frequency[4] and by letter.[4] Contributors[edit] Denis Diderot[edit] Diderot had just finished the translation of A Medicinal Dictionary by Robert James when the publicist André le Breton charged him, on 16 October 1747, to resume the project of translating the English Cyclopaedia that Jean Paul de Gua de Malves could not successfully complete. Diderot undertook the history of ancient philosophy, wrote the Prospectus and the System of Human Knowledge, and, with D'Alembert, revised all the articles. Le chevalier de Jaucourt[edit] Louis de Jaucourt is little known in other respects but was one of the principal authors in the disciplines of economics, literature, medicine, and politics. D'Alembert[edit] Jean le Rond d'Alembert is the author of the Preliminary Discourse and of several articles. In 1752 d'Alembert, who was tired of the mocking, cries of indignation, and religious persecution against the Encyclopédie, retired from the encyclopedic undertaking. Subsequently, his contributions were limited to the subject of mathematics, a sensible topic in the eyes of censors. Alphabetical[edit] Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis Arnulphe d'Aumont Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Jacques-François Blondel Claude Bourgelat Jean-François-Henri Collot Étienne Noël Damilaville Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton Denis Diderot César Chesneau Du Marsais Marc-Antoine Eidous Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle Guillaume Le Blond André Le Breton Georges-Louis Le Sage Antoine Louis Baron d'Holbach Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt Edmé-François Mallet Paul-Jacques Malouin Jean-François Marmontel Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu Adrien Quiret de Margency Jean-Baptiste-Pierre le Romain Jean-Jacques Rousseau António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches Pierre Tarin François-Vincent Toussaint Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Urbain de Vandenesse Gabriel François Venel Suzanne Verdier (1745–1813), writer Voltaire Abbé Claude Yvon Number of articles[edit] 37870 – XXX (unsigned or undetermined) 17288 – Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt 5394 – Denis Diderot 4268 – Boucher d'Argis 1925 – Edmé-François Mallet 1309 – Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 994 – Jacques-Nicolas Bellin 720 – Guillaume Le Blond 707 – Gabriel François Venel 693 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton 541 – Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville 482 – Jacques-François Blondel 449 – Antoine Louis 428 – Marc-Antoine Eidous 414 – Baron d'Holbach 388 – François-Vincent Toussaint 344 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 337 – Pierre Tarin 227 – Claude Bourgelat 214 – Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle 199 – Urbain de Vandenesse 192 – Arnulphe d'Aumont 129 – César Chesneau Du Marsais 119 – Cahusac 108 – Le Roy 107 – Landois 91 – Beauzée 78 – Paul-Jacques Malouin 70 – Jean-Baptiste-Pierre le Romain 61 – Louis-Jacques Goussier, also supervisor of the engraved plates 56 – Malouin 45 – Lenglet Du Fresnoy 41 – Daubenton|Diderot 39 – Claude Yvon 39 – Daubenton|Vandenesse 32 – Boucher d'Argis 26 – de La Chapelle|d'Alembert 26 – Voltaire 25 – Diderot|Mallet 23 – Daubenton|Jaucourt 22 – Daubenton, le Subdelegue 21 – Barths 20 – Mallet|Diderot 20 – Formey 20 – Daubenton|Jaucourt 14 – Rousseau|d'Alembert 14 – Beauzee 13 – Watelet 13 – Boucher d'Argis 12 – Douchet et Beauzee 12 – Daubenton|d'Argenville 11 – Diderot|Vandenesse 10 – Jacques-François de Villiers 10 – Marmontel 10 – Forbonnais 9 – Papillon 9 – Mallet|d'Alembert 9 – Daubenton|Daubenton, le Subdelegue 8 – Faiguet 7 – d'Argenville|Diderot 7 – Tarin 7 – Pestr 7 – Jaucourt 7 – Bellin|Bellin 6 – Vandenesse|Diderot 6 – Toussaint|Mallet 6 – Durival 6 – Beauzee et Duchet 5 – d'Aubenton 5 – d'Alembert|Diderot 5 – Yvon|Diderot 5 – Venel|Venel 5 – Menuret 5 – Mallet|Mallet 5 – Diderot|Daubenton 5 – Daubenton|d'Argenville|Vandenesse 5 – Daubenton|Vandenesse|Diderot 5 – C. D. J.| Jaucourt 4 – d'Alembert|Mallet 4 – Romilly 4 – Rallier 4 – Louis|Diderot 4 – Blondel|Diderot By letter[edit] In the Encyclopédie, the authors are identified by a letter at the end of an article. (A) – Boucher d'Argis (a) – Lenglet Du Fresnoy (B) – Cahusac (b) – Venel (C) – Pestré (c) – Daubenton, le Subdélégué (D) – Goussier (d) – d'Aumont (E) – de La Chapelle (e) – Bourgelat (F) – Dumarsais (f) – de Villiers (G) – Mallet (g) – Barthès (H) – Toussaint (h) – Morellet (I) – Daubenton (K) – d'Argenville (L) – Tarin (M) – Malouin (m) – Ménuret de Chambaud (N) – Vandenesse (O) – d'Alembert (P) – Blondel (Q) – Le Blond (R) – Landois (S) – Rousseau (T) – Le Roy (V) – Eidous (X) – Yvon (Y) – Louis (Z) – Bellin (*) – Diderot (D.J.) – de Jaucourt (—) – d'Holbach (V.D.F.) – Forbonnais (E.R.M.) – Douchet and Beauzée See also[edit] Wikipedians References[edit] ^ "Encyclopaedists". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 13 February 2020. ^ Frank A. Kafker and Serena Kafker, The Encyclopedists as Individuals: A Biographical Dictionary of the Authors of the Encyclopédie (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1988). ^ Frank A. Kafker, The Encyclopedists as a Group: A Collective Biography of the Authors of the Encyclopédie (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1996). ^ a b "The ARTFL Encyclopédie - ARTFL Encyclopédie". Encyclopedie.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 29 March 2019. This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (August 2010) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. 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