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Denis Diderot

1713 - 1784

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Denis Diderot (; French: [dəni did(ə)ʁo]; 5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment. Diderot initially studied philosophy at a Jesuit college, then considered working in the church clergy before briefly studying law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Denis Diderot has received more than 2,486,606 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). Denis Diderot is the 29th most popular writer (up from 40th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from France (up from 35th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Writer.

Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He is most famous for his work as a philosopher.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Denis Diderot ranks 29 out of 7,302. Before him are Aesop, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ovid, Rumi, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Giovanni Boccaccio. After him are Agatha Christie, Horace, Ernest Hemingway, Alexandre Dumas, Anne Frank, and Selma Lagerlöf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1713, Denis Diderot ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand VI of Spain, Laurence Sterne, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Alexis Clairaut, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Junípero Serra, Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Johann Ludwig Krebs, and Guillaume Thomas François Raynal. Among people deceased in 1784, Denis Diderot ranks 1. After him are Count of St. Germain, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Samuel Johnson, Phillis Wheatley, Giovanni Battista Martini, Junípero Serra, Torbern Bergman, Otto Friedrich Müller, Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, Abraham Trembley, and César-François Cassini de Thury.

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In France

Among people born in France, Denis Diderot ranks 27 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul Cézanne (1839), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Napoleon II (1811), Auguste Comte (1798), and Antoine Lavoisier (1743). After him are Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807), Nostradamus (1503), Napoleon III (1808), Édith Piaf (1915), Paul Gauguin (1848), and Émile Durkheim (1858).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Denis Diderot ranks 8. Before him are Victor Hugo (1802), Jules Verne (1828), Molière (1622), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900). After him are Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), and Simone de Beauvoir (1908).

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