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"Denis Diderot" (1713-1784) c. 1769 by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) 

Pioneer encyclopedist and famous French thinker. His monumental work is the Encyclopedia or Cyclopedia, a project fiercely opposed by the Roman Church. In 1759 the Encyclopedia was formally suppressed. Diderot was paid 120 pounds sterling for his monumental work. Voltaire comment was " ... an army contractor makes 800 pounds in a day!" (not much has changed since).


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