Diderot
Americannoun
noun
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His 1770s busts of Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and especially his sculpture of a seated Voltaire, have influenced ever since how the French picture their philosophes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The incident happened at a museum dedicated to French philosopher Denis Diderot in Landres, north-eastern France on Sunday night.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
I was less moved by one of the high shrines of atheism, in Langres, the hometown of the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2019
By the middle of the eighteenth century, French scholars Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert felt ready to catalogue all human knowledge in their comprehensive, 30-volume Encyclopédie.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Many eighteenth-century atheists, such as d’Holbach and Diderot, were to take their inspiration from Descartes’ mechanism and turn it into a systematic materialism with no room for God.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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