Diderot, Denis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...DIDEROT, DENIS d ne ded ro , 1713 84, French encyclopedist, philosopher of materialism...literature, b. Langres. He was also a novelist, satirist, and dramatist. Diderot was enormously...Encyclopedie , enlisting nearly all the important French writers of the Enlightenment ; they...