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The Encyclopédistes were a group of 18th century writers in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 who compiled the Encyclopédie
Encyclopédie

Encyclop?die, ou dictionnaire raisonn? des sciences, des arts et des m?tiers was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements and revisions in 1772, 1777 and 1780 and numerous foreign editions and later derivatives....
 edited by Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot was a French philosopher and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment and is best known for serving as chief editor and contributor to the Encyclop?die....
 and Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Jean le Rond d'Alembert was a France mathematician, mechanics, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclop?die....
. Like Pierre Bayle
Pierre Bayle

Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher and writer.Pierre Bayle was a Christian scholar who argued that faith could not be justified by reason, on the grounds that God is incomprehensible to man....
 (1647-1706), who created the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique
Dictionnaire Historique et Critique

The Dictionnaire Historique et Critique was a Biography dictionary written by Pierre Bayle , a Huguenot who lived and published in Holland after fleeing his native France due to religious persecution....
, the Encyclopédistes were part of the intellectual group known as the philosophe
Philosophe

The philosophes were a group of intellectuals of the 18th century The Enlightenment....
s. They promoted the advancement of science and secular thought, and supported the tolerance, rationality and open-mindedness of the Enlightenment
Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment or The Enlightenment is a term used to describe a time in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the eighteenth century, in which rationalism was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority....
.

Below the contributors are listed in alphabetical order, by number of articles written, and by identifying letter in the Encyclopédie.








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The Encyclopédistes were a group of 18th century writers in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 who compiled the Encyclopédie
Encyclopédie

Encyclop?die, ou dictionnaire raisonn? des sciences, des arts et des m?tiers was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements and revisions in 1772, 1777 and 1780 and numerous foreign editions and later derivatives....
 edited by Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot was a French philosopher and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment and is best known for serving as chief editor and contributor to the Encyclop?die....
 and Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Jean le Rond d'Alembert was a France mathematician, mechanics, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclop?die....
. Like Pierre Bayle
Pierre Bayle

Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher and writer.Pierre Bayle was a Christian scholar who argued that faith could not be justified by reason, on the grounds that God is incomprehensible to man....
 (1647-1706), who created the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique
Dictionnaire Historique et Critique

The Dictionnaire Historique et Critique was a Biography dictionary written by Pierre Bayle , a Huguenot who lived and published in Holland after fleeing his native France due to religious persecution....
, the Encyclopédistes were part of the intellectual group known as the philosophe
Philosophe

The philosophes were a group of intellectuals of the 18th century The Enlightenment....
s. They promoted the advancement of science and secular thought, and supported the tolerance, rationality and open-mindedness of the Enlightenment
Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment or The Enlightenment is a term used to describe a time in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the eighteenth century, in which rationalism was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority....
.

Below the contributors are listed in alphabetical order, by number of articles written, and by identifying letter in the Encyclopédie.

Alphabetical


  • Jean le Rond d'Alembert
    Jean le Rond d'Alembert

    Jean le Rond d'Alembert was a France mathematician, mechanics, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclop?die....
  • Antoine-Joseph Desallier d'Argenville
  • Boucher d'Argis
  • Arnulphe d'Aumont
  • Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

    Jacques Nicolas Bellin was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes.Bellin was born in Paris....
  • Jacques-François Blondel
    Jacques-François Blondel

    Jacques-Fran?ois Blondel was a France architect. He was the grandson of Fran?ois Blondel , whose course of architecture had appeared in four volumes in 1683 ...
  • Claude Bourgelat
    Claude Bourgelat

    File:Bourgelat.pngClaude Bourgelat was a France veterinary surgeon.Bourgelat was born at Lyon. He was the founder of veterinary colleges at Lyon in 1762, as well as an authority on horse management, and often consulted on the matter....
  • Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
    Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

    ?tienne Bonnot de Condillac was a France philosopher....
  • Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton
    Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton

    Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton was a France natural history.Daubenton was born at Montbard . His father, Jean Daubenton, a Civil law notary, intended him for the church, and sent him to Paris, France to study theology, but he was more interested in medicine....
  • Denis Diderot
    Denis Diderot

    Denis Diderot was a French philosopher and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment and is best known for serving as chief editor and contributor to the Encyclop?die....
  • César Chesneau Du Marsais
  • Marc-Antoine Eidous
    Marc-Antoine Eidous

    Marc-Antoine Eidous was a France writer, translator and Encyclopedist born in Marseilles around 1724, and who died in 1790.His translations included works on the subjects of philosophy, travel and agriculture by English and Scottish authors:...
  • Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle
  • Guillaume Le Blond
  • Le Breton
  • Antoine Louis
    Antoine Louis

    Antoine Louis was a French surgeon and physiologist who was born in Metz. He was associated with Parisian hospitals for much of his career, including the Salp?tri?re and H?pital de la Charit?....
  • Baron d'Holbach
    Baron d'Holbach

    Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach was a France-Germany author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris....
  • Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt
    Louis de Jaucourt

    Legion of Honor Louis de Jaucourt was a France scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclop?die. He wrote about 18,000 articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopedia, all done voluntarily....
  • Edme-François Mallet
  • Jean-François Marmontel
    Jean-François Marmontel

    Jean-Fran?ois Marmontel was a France historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement....
  • Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
    Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

    Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Br?de et de Montesquieu , was a France social commentator and Political philosophy who lived during the Age of Enlightenment....
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean Jacques Rousseau was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth century The Age of Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought....
  • Pierre Tarin
  • François-Vincent Toussaint
    François-Vincent Toussaint

    Fran?ois-Vincent Toussaint was a France writer most famous for Les M?urs . The book was published in 1748 andimmediately prosecuted and burned by the French court of justice....
  • Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
    Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

    Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, often referred to as Turgot , was a France economist and statesman....
  • Urbain de Vandenesse
  • Gabriel-François Venel
  • Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Fran?ois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Age of Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosophy known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberty, including freedom of religion and free trade....


Number of articles


  • 37870 - XXX (unsigned or undetermined)
  • 17288 - Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt
    Louis de Jaucourt

    Legion of Honor Louis de Jaucourt was a France scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclop?die. He wrote about 18,000 articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopedia, all done voluntarily....
  • 5394 - Denis Diderot
    Denis Diderot

    Denis Diderot was a French philosopher and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment and is best known for serving as chief editor and contributor to the Encyclop?die....
  • 4268 - Boucher d'Argis
  • 1925 - Edme-François Mallet
  • 1309 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert
    Jean le Rond d'Alembert

    Jean le Rond d'Alembert was a France mathematician, mechanics, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclop?die....
  • 994 - Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

    Jacques Nicolas Bellin was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes.Bellin was born in Paris....
  • 720 - Guillaume Le Blond
  • 707 - Gabriel-François Venel
  • 693 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton
    Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton

    Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton was a France natural history.Daubenton was born at Montbard . His father, Jean Daubenton, a Civil law notary, intended him for the church, and sent him to Paris, France to study theology, but he was more interested in medicine....
  • 541 - Antoine-Joseph Desallier d'Argenville
  • 482 - Jacques-François Blondel
    Jacques-François Blondel

    Jacques-Fran?ois Blondel was a France architect. He was the grandson of Fran?ois Blondel , whose course of architecture had appeared in four volumes in 1683 ...
  • 449 - Antoine Louis
    Antoine Louis

    Antoine Louis was a French surgeon and physiologist who was born in Metz. He was associated with Parisian hospitals for much of his career, including the Salp?tri?re and H?pital de la Charit?....
  • 428 - Marc-Antoine Eidous
    Marc-Antoine Eidous

    Marc-Antoine Eidous was a France writer, translator and Encyclopedist born in Marseilles around 1724, and who died in 1790.His translations included works on the subjects of philosophy, travel and agriculture by English and Scottish authors:...
  • 414 - Baron d'Holbach
    Baron d'Holbach

    Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach was a France-Germany author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris....
  • 388 - François-Vincent Toussaint
    François-Vincent Toussaint

    Fran?ois-Vincent Toussaint was a France writer most famous for Les M?urs . The book was published in 1748 andimmediately prosecuted and burned by the French court of justice....
  • 344 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean Jacques Rousseau was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth century The Age of Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought....
  • 337 - Pierre Tarin
  • 227 - Claude Bourgelat
    Claude Bourgelat

    File:Bourgelat.pngClaude Bourgelat was a France veterinary surgeon.Bourgelat was born at Lyon. He was the founder of veterinary colleges at Lyon in 1762, as well as an authority on horse management, and often consulted on the matter....
  • 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 - Beauzee
  • 78 - Malouin
  • 61 - Louis-Jacques Goussier
    Louis-Jacques Goussier

    Louis-Jacques Goussier was a France illustrator and French Encyclop?distes....
    , also supervisor of the engraved plates
  • 56 - Malouin
  • 45 - Lenglet Du Fresnoy
  • 41 - Daubenton|Diderot
  • 39 - 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 - Romain
  • 12 - Douchet et Beauzee
  • 12 - Daubenton|d'Argenville
  • 11 - Diderot|Vandenesse
  • 10 - Villiers
  • 10 - Marmontel
    Jean-François Marmontel

    Jean-Fran?ois Marmontel was a France historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement....
  • 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


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