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The encyclopédistes were a group of 18th-century writers in France who compiled and wrote the Encyclopédie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. More than a hundred encyclopédistes have been identified.[1] Many were part of 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. Still, as Frank Kafker has shown, the encyclopédistes were not a unified group, neither in ideology nor social class.[2]
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.
Contents
Alphabetical
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
- Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville
- Boucher d'Argis
- Arnulphe d'Aumont
- Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
- Jacques-François Blondel
- Claude Bourgelat
- Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton
- Denis Diderot
- César Chesneau Du Marsais
- Marc-Antoine Eidous
- Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle
- Guillaume Le Blond
- André Le Breton
- Antoine Louis
- Baron d'Holbach
- Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt
- Edme-François Mallet
- Jean-François Marmontel
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Pierre Tarin
- François-Vincent Toussaint
- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
- Urbain de Vandenesse
- Gabriel-François Venel
- Voltaire
- Abbé Claude Yvon
Number of articles
- 37870 - XXX (unsigned or undetermined)
- 17288 - Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt
- 5394 - Denis Diderot
- 4268 - Boucher d'Argis
- 1925 - Edme-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 - Malouin
- 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 - Romain
- 12 - Douchet et Beauzee
- 12 - Daubenton|d'Argenville
- 11 - Diderot|Vandenesse
- 10 - 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
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
Notes
- ^ 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).
References
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