Flashcards: Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–72)

Jean-Rodolphe Perronet (27 October 1708 – 27 February 1794) was a French architect and structural engineer, known for his many stone arch bridges.

The Encyclopédistes were a members of the Société des gens de lettres, a French writer's society, who contributed to the development of the Encyclopédie from June 1751 to December 1765 under editors Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

Giovanni Francesco Mauro Melchiorre Salvemini di Castiglione FRS (January 15, 1708 in Castiglione del Valdarno – October 11, 1791 in Berlin) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer.

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (/ˈɛtiˌɛn ˈbɒnoʊ də ˈkɒndiˌæk/; French: [bɔno də kɔ̃dijak]; 30 September 1714 – 3 August 1780) was a French philosopher and epistemologist, who studied in such areas as psychology and the philosophy of the mind.

Jacques-André Naigeon (July 15, 1738, Paris – 28 February 1810, Paris) was a French artist, atheist philosopher, editor and man of letters best known for his contributions to the Encyclopédie and for reworking Baron d'Holbach's and Diderot's manuscripts.

Nicolas Antoine Boulanger (11 November 1722, Paris – 16 September 1759, Paris) was a French philosopher and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (French: [dɔlbak]), was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and prominent figure in the French Enlightenment.

Antoine-François Brisson (25 October 1728, Paris – 1796, Lyon) was an 18th-century French lawyer.

Antoine de Seguiran, called chevalier de Seguiran, was an 18th-century French military and encyclopédiste.

Jean-Baptiste Le Roy (15 August 1720, Paris – 20 January 1800, Paris) was an 18th-century French physicist and one of the major contributors to the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d’Alembert for technology.

André François le Breton (2 September 1708 – 5 October 1779) was a French publisher.

Laurent Durand (1712, Paris – 1763) was an 18th-century French publisher active in the Age of Enlightenment.

Étienne Noël Damilaville 21 November 1723 – 13 December 1768) was an 18th-century French man of letters, friend of Voltaire, Diderot and d'Alembert.

Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis (April 3, 1708 in Lyon – January 25, 1791 in Paris age 82) was a French lawyer.

Ferdinand Berthoud (18 March 1727, Plancemont-sur-Couvet, Val-de-Travers, Canton of Neuchâtel – 20 June 1807, Groslay) was an exceptional French horologist and researcher.

Alexandre Deleyre (10 January 1726, Portets near Bordeaux – 13 March 1796, Paris aged 71) was an 18th-century French man of letters.

Henri Fouquet (31 July 1727 – 10 October 1806) was an 18th-century French physician.

Didier-François d’Arclais de Montamy (1702, Montamy – 8 February 1765) was an 18th-century French civil servant, Nature scholar and encyclopédiste.

Jan Stefan Ligenza Kurdwanowski (also Jan Szczepan Kurdwanowski; 1690–1780) was a Polish physicist, member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and military officer.

Jean-Charles Perrinet d’Orval (1707, Sancerre – 5 May 1782, Paris) was an 18th-century French pyrotechnician.

Jean-Baptiste Luton Durival (4 July 1725 – 14 February 1810) was an 18th-century French historian, diplomat and Encyclopédiste.

Jean-François-Henri Collot (Pont-d’Arches, near Charleville-Mézières 26 January 1716 – October 1804 in Mesnil, near Châlons-sur-Marne) was an 18th-century French homme de lettres and encyclopédiste.

Jean Romilly (27 June 1714 – 16 February 1796) was an 18th-century Swiss watchmaker, journalist and encyclopédiste.

The Abbé Claude Yvon (15 April 1714 – November 1789) was a French encyclopédiste, a savant who contributed to the Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

Robert Bénard (1734, Paris – 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver.

Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Romain (Dates of birth and death unknown) was a French engineer and contributor to the Encyclopédie during the eighteenth century and age of Enlightenment.

Jean-Baptiste de Voglie (1723/24 – October 1777), born Jean Bentivoglio was an eminent Italian road and bridge engineer.

Jean-Denis de Montlovier (1733, Valence (Dauphiné) – 1804, Dagues near Marsanne) was an 18th-century French man of letters.

Jean-Joseph Menuret, called Menuret de Chambaud (23 January 1739 – 15 December 1815) was a French physician and author of a number of medical treatises.

Jean-Joseph Rallier des Ourmes (26 May 1701 – 23 June 1771) was an 18th-century French mathematician.

Jean-Martin de Prades (c.1720–1782) was a French Catholic theologian.

Jean Bouillet (14 May 1690, Servian near Béziers – 13 August 1777, Béziers) was an 18th-century French physician.

Jean Pestré, or Pestre, (1723, Saint-Geniez-d'Olt – 1821, Paris) was an 18th–19th-century French theologian.

Arnulphe d'Aumont (December 27, 1720 – August 8, 1800) was a French doctor.

Louis Necker, called de Germany (31 August 1730, Geneva – 31 July 1804, Cologny) was an 18th-century Swiss mathematician.

Gabriel François Venel (23 August 1723, Tourbes – 29 October 1775, Pézenas) was a French chemist, physician and a contributor to the Encyclopédie, (673 items, articles on chemistry, pharmacy, physiology and medicine).

Pierre Daubenton (10 April 1703 – 14 September 1776) was an 18th-century French lawyer, politician, author and Encyclopédiste.

Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg (12 February 1709, Mayenne – 14 December 1779, Paris) was a French physician, botanist, writer, translator and publisher known for translating Benjamin Franklin's work into French and for inventing a gentlemen's umbrella fitted with a lightning conductor.

Edmé-François Mallet, also abbé Mallet, (29 January 1713, Melun – 25 February 1755, Châteaurenard) was an 18th-century French theologian ans encyclopédiste.

Jean Paul de Gua de Malves (1713, Malves-en-Minervois (Aude) – June 2, 1785, Paris) was a French mathematician who published in 1740 a work on analytical geometry in which he applied it, without the aid of differential calculus, to find the tangents, asymptotes, and various singular points of an algebraic curve.

Jacques-Philippe-Augustin Douchet (? – ?) was an 18th-century French lawyer, grammarian and encyclopédiste.

Jacques Montet (9 March 1722 in Beaulieu near Le Vigan – 13 November 1782 in Montpellier) was an 18th-century French pharmacist, chemist and encyclopediste.

Paul Jacques Malouin (27 June 1701 Caen – 3 January 1778 Versailles) was a French chemist and physicist.

Michel-Antoine David also David l'aîné (1707, ? – 17 March 1769, Paris) was an 18th-century French printer, publisher and Encyclopédiste during the Age of Enlightenment.

Paul Landois was an 18th-century French playwright.

Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages or François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix (28 August 1710, Alès – 13 December 1795) was a French naturalist, researcher in provençal dialect and encyclopédist.

Pierre Tarin (1735–1761) was a French doctor, writer, and translator, born in Courtenay.

Charles-Georges Le Roy or Leroy (22 January 1723, Paris – 11 November 1789, Paris) was a French man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment and the author of one of the first books on animal behavior.

Urbain de Vandenesse (? – 1753, Paris) was an 18th-century French physician and Encyclopédiste.

Charles Le Roy (12 February 1726 – 12 December 1779) was an 18th-century French physician and Encyclopédiste.

Adrien Quiret de Margency also Adrien Cuyret de Margency (1727 – c. 1802) was an 18th-century French officer of the Maison militaire du roi de France (Gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre du roi), writer and Encyclopédiste.

Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson, marquis de Pezay, (27 April 1741 – 6 December 1777) was an 18th-century French soldier, courtesan and man of letters.

Charles-Louis d’Authville Des Amourettes (1716 – 1762) was an 18th-century French military.

César Chesneau, sieur Dumarsais or Du Marsais (July 17, 1676 – June 11, 1756) was a French philosophe, grammarian and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.

Élie Bertrand (1713–1797) was a Swiss geologist and naturalist.

Nicolas-Léopold Liébault (circa 1723, Nancy – 1795) was an 18th-century French officer, writer and collaborator of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert.

Nicolas Beauzée (9 May 1717, Verdun, Meuse – 23 January 1789, Paris) was a French linguist, author of Grammaire générale (published 1767) and one of the main contributors to the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert on the topic of grammar.

Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy (5 October 1674 – 16 January 1755) was a French scholar, historian, geographer, philosopher and bibliographer of alchemy.

Charles-Benjamin de Langes de Montmirail, baron de Lubières, 1714, Berlin – 1 June 1790, was a Genevan mathematician.

Pierre-Jean Grosley (Troyes, 18 November 1718 — Troyes, 4 November 1785) was a French man of letters, local historian, travel writer and observer of social mores in the Age of Enlightenment and a contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.

Joseph-François-Édouard de Corsembleu Sieur de Desmahis (1 March 1723, Sully-sur-Loire – 25 February 1761, Paris) was an 18th-century French playwright.

Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve (16 October 1703, Moncontour – 10 November 1781, Néris-les-Bains, Allier) was an 18th-century French economist.

Sauveur François Morand (2 April 1697, Paris – 21 July 1773) was a French surgeon.

Charles-Nicolas Cochin (22 February 1715 – 29 April 1790) was a French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic.

André-François Boureau-Deslandes (21 May 1689 – 11 April 1757) was a French philosopher.

Antoine-Noé Polier de Bottens (17 December 1713 – 9 August 1783) was an 18th-century Swiss Protestant theologian.

Antoine-César Gautier de Montdorge (or Mondorge) (17 January 1701 or 1707 - 24 October 1768) was a French man of letters, best known for writing the libretto for Rameau's opéra-ballet Les fêtes d'Hébé (1739).

Antoine Petit (23 July 1722 – 21 October 1794) was a French physician, master of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin and Félix Vicq d'Azyr.

Antoine Penchenier, or Penchinier, (? , Montélimar – 1761, Donzère), was an 18th-century French physician.

Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723, Paris – 1786) was an 18th-century French geographer.

Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (French: [bɛʁʒje]; 31 December 1718 – 9 April 1790) was a French Catholic theologian.

Étienne Jean Bouchu (23 May 1714 – 5 September 1773) was a French ironworks expert and manufacturer.

Charles-Étienne Pesselier (9 July 1712, Paris – 25 August 1763, Paris aged 52) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist.

Charles Gautier de Vinfrais, better known under the name Vinfrais l’ainé, (7 November 1704 – 4 Novembre 1797) was an 18th-century French officer of the Royal venery.

François-Jacques Guillotte (? Paris – 1766 ?, id.) was an 18th-century French police officer and Encyclopédiste.

François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais (1722–1800) was a French political economist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.

Guillaume Barthez de Marmorières (2 March 1707 – 11 January 1799) was a French civil engineer.

Guillaume d’Abbes de Cabrebolles, also Guillaume d’Abbes, baron de Cabreroles, (21 March 1718, Bédarieux – 1 October 1802, Saint-Martin-d’Aumes) was an 18th-century French lawyer, and Encyclopédisteduring the Age of Enlightenment.

Guillaume Le Blond (1704 – May 24, 1781) was a French mathematician.

Louis-Claude Brullé (died 8 January 1772 in Paris) was an 18th-century French printer and Encyclopédiste.

Mathieu-Antoine Bouchaud (16 April 1719 – 1 February 1804) was an 18th-century French economist and lawyer who contributed to the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert.

Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard also Philibert Guéneau de Montbeillard (2 April 1720 – 28 November 1785) was an 18th-century French lawyer, ornithologist and encyclopédiste.

Pierre Soubeyran (6 November 1706, Geneva – 12 April 1775, Geneva) was an 18th-century Swiss-French engraver, etcher and Encyclopédiste.

Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes.