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The encyclopédistes were a group of 18th-century writers in France who compiled and wrote the Encyclopédie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. More than a hundred encyclopédistes have been identified.[1] Many were part of the intellectual group known as the philosophes. They promoted the advancement of science and secular thought and supported tolerance, rationality, and open-mindedness of the Enlightenment. Still, as Frank Kafker has shown, the encyclopédistes were not a unified group, neither in ideology nor social class.[2]
Below some of the contributors are listed in alphabetical order, by the number of articles that they wrote, and by the identifying "signature" by which their contributions were identified in the Encyclopédie.
In the encyclopédie, the authors are identified by a letter at the end of an article.
Voltaire, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Denis Diderot, Liberalism
Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, France, Isaac Newton, Thomas Paine
Denis Diderot, Age of Enlightenment, Science, Socialism, Isaac Newton
Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, André Le Breton
Paris, Philosophes, Salon (gathering), Rue Saint-Honoré, Encyclopédistes