Brissot, Jeune Philosophe", p. 178 in: French Historical Studies, Volume 17, No. 1 (Spring 2001) Simon Burrows, "The Innocence of Jacques-Pierre Brissot...

Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt (French: [də ʒokuʁ]; 16 September 1704 – 3 February 1779) was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie...

piano and orchestra. Operas Le Chevalier d'industrie, opera (composed with Gustave Dugazon, on a libretto by Jacques Bins de Saint-Victor), 1804 La Folie...

opposition to social and financial reforms proposed by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and Jacques Necker. Several events were linked to Marie Antoinette during...

authors belonging, in large part, to the intellectual group known as the philosophes. They promoted the advancement of science and secular thought and supported...

1971 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, l'apprentissage de l'humanité, Éditions sociales, 1988 La philosophie des Lumières, Éditions sociales, 1990 Chevalier de la Légion...

common with the beaux esprits of the 17th century, as well as with the philosophes of the 18th. But it is to the latter rather than to the former period...

at the top of the great Rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques close to the Crossing" (parish of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Philippe), a short distance from the...

Denis Diderot (1713–1784), one of the Enlightenment's most prominent philosophes, and editor-in-chief of the Encyclopédie, which sought to challenge religious...

/vɔːl-/; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity...