l'Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (The Encyclopedia, or systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts and crafts) was published in France between 1751 and ...

Denis Diderot's work on the Encyclopédie faced stiff resistance in its time, but some scholars credit it with laying the foundations of the French Revolution. Before there was Wikipedia, there were ...

Denis Diderot and his Encyclopédie." On this date in 1423, the English won a great victory over the French in the Hundred Years’ War. I bet you didn’t know that, and I bet you don’t care either. Every ...

Thumbing through the first volumes of the big new encyclopedia one evening at the Trianon, France’s King Louis XV showed frank bewilderment. His ministers had told him that the work was subversive, ...

TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY years ago this month, a Parisian penned a letter to his lover. He filled it with sighs — although not over the depth of his feelings for his paramour. Instead, he sighed from the ...

THE EMBATTLED PHILOSOPHER (442 pp.) —Lester G. Crocker—Michigan State College ($6.50). French Philosopher Denis Diderot had the intellectual brilliance that sparkled in an 18th century drawing room, ...

The theft of French crown jewels overshadowed the robbery of some $100,000 worth of historical coins from a museum dedicated ...