Encyclopédie

Encyclopédie it was a cultural plan around to which the best French intellectuals assembled themselves, between which , of Alembert and the baron Paul-Henri-Dietrich de Holbach. Hindered from censorship and from the repeated attacks of , the work found finally fulfillment in .

The Encyclopédie, call also "reasoned Dictionary of the limbs and the trades" it was the greatest cultural realization of. In spite of a decree regal of the French monarchy of it prohibited the publication of this work, between and 17 volumes of text exited, to which they followed, in , 11 volumes of tables. For via of the numerous battles fought for its publication against the censorship and the cultural atmosphere hostility sure, the Encyclopédie was considered like expression of true and just "a philosophical party".

The main curatore of this huge work was Denis Diderot, lively intellectual, writer and philosopher. The greater French intellectuals of the age participated to the drawing up of the work all. Diderot was placed side by side from the mathematician of Alembert, that the "preliminary Speech" wrote.

Between the other collaborators they numbered also the baron de Holbach, and , that it collaborated with articles of musical argument and wrote up the voice "political Economy". The guiding lines of the Encyclopedia made head the philosophical and scientific theories of , , , .

The Encyclopédie had a wide one happening to the age, to the beginning towards the richer ranks, approval the elevated price of the complete edition, but later on, with the publication of more manageable and less expensive volumes, it diffuses near all the social classes.