Contributions

  • Ysabeau, Claude-Alexandre, 1754-1831 - Contributor
  • Helve tius, 1715-1771 - Contributor
  • Voltaire, 1694-1778 - Contributor
  • Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 - Contributor

Publication

1759 - Chez P.G. Simon, A Paris, France

Language

French

Word Count

7,750 words, Guess

Page Count

31 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCB2043 1758

Alternate Titles

  • Registres (France. Conseil d'Etat)
  • Encyclope die, ou Dictionnaire raisonne de sciences.

Description

The court ordered the suppression and public burning of seven works: De l'esprit, by Helvétius; Le pirrhonisme du sage, by Louis de Beausobre; La philosophie du bon sens, by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens; La religion naturelle (Poème sur la loi naturelle), by Voltaire; Lettres semi-philosophiques du chevalier de ** au comte de **, by Jean-Baptiste Pascal; Étrennes des esprits forts (a new edition of Pensées philosophiques, by Denis Diderot, with an appended anonymous "Epître philosophique en vers à un philosophe"); and Lettre au R.P. Berthier, sur le matérialisme, by Gabriel François Coyer. In addition, the seven volumes published to date of Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers were referred to a panel of experts for further examination and ordered suppressed in the interim.

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