Description
Book SynopsisThis collective biography examines the similarities and differences among the 140 collaborators identified as having written articles for the seventeen folio volumes of text.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Preface
List of maps
A chart of biographical information on the Encyclopedists
Dates of publication of the volumes of the Encyclopédie
Abbreviations
I. Introduction
I. The Encyclopedists before the publication of the Encyclopédie
II. The Encyclopedists from 1751-1787
2. The regional and institutional centres of the Encyclopedic enterprise
3. The recruitment and pay of the contributors
4. The scholarly calibre of the team
5. The religious and political ideas of the Encyclopédie and the Encyclopedists
6. The effects of censorship on the Encyclopédie and the Encyclopedists
7. The effects of persecution on the Encyclopédie and the Encyclopedists
III. The Encyclopedists and the French Revolution
8. The Encyclopedists and the coming of the French Revolution (1787-1789)
9. The Encyclopedists and the Reign of Terror (1793-1794)
IV. The later years of the Encyclopedists
10. Old age and productivity among the Encyclopedists
V. Conclusion
11. The Encyclopedists and the rule of Napoleon (1799-1815)
Select bibliography
Index
