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Commit e303df34 authored by Alice Brenon's avatar Alice Brenon
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Include Denis' feedback about the separate destinies of plate and text volumes

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History hints that Diderot's opponents took his defense of the feasability of
the project quite seriously, considering the fact that they got the
*Encyclopédie*'s priviledges to be revoked again six years after its publication
was resumed and that its remaining volumes had to be published illegally until
its end in 1772.
However, in their last edition in 1771 the authors of the *Dictionnaire de
was resumed. As a consequence, the remaining ten volumes containing the text of
the articles had to be published illegally until 1765, thanks to the secret
protection of Malesherbes who — despite being head of royal censorship — saved
the manuscripts from destruction. They were printed secretly outside of Paris
and the books were (falsely) labeled as coming from Neufchâtel. Following the
high demand from the booksellers who feared they would lose the money they had
invested in the project, a special priviledge was issued for the volumes
containing the plates, which were released publicly from 1762 to 1772.
In any case, in their last edition in 1771 the authors of the *Dictionnaire de
Trevoux* had no choice but to acknowledge the success of the encyclopedic
projects of the 18\textsuperscript{th} century. In this version, the definition
was entirely reworked, mildly stating that good encyclopedias are difficult to
......@@ -80,9 +86,10 @@ with scientific progress instead of calling the effort a parody. It credits
Chamber's *Cyclopædia* for being a decent attempt before referring anonymously
though quite explicitly to Diderot and d'Alembert's project by naming the
collective "Une Société de gens de Lettres" and writing that it started in 1751.
Even more importantly, two new entries were added after it: one for the adjective
"encyclopédique" and another one for the noun "encyclopédiste", silently admitting
how the project had changed its time and the relation to knowledge.
Even more importantly, two new entries were added after it: one for the
adjective "encyclopédique" and another one for the noun "encyclopédiste",
silently admitting how the project had changed its time and the relation to
knowledge itself.
## A different approach
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