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The Encyclopédie — The Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, whose first volume appeared in Paris in 1751
Born of a plan to translate Chambers’s Cyclopaedia, entrusted in 1747 by four Parisian booksellers to Diderot and d’Alembert, it became an original work of seventeen volumes of text and eleven of plates. The privilege was revoked in 1759 and the last ten volumes of text appeared in 1765 under a false Neuchâtel imprint. (Editorial synthesis)
The Encyclopédie was published in Paris. (source: BnF)
2 authors of The Encyclopédie are recorded: d’Alembert and Diderot.
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