Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
portrait by Louis-Michel van Loo
exhibited at the 1767 Salon de Paris 
under the title Portrait de M. Diderot
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co-founder and chief editor, contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert (wiki)

• A Samizdat for the Aristocrats of 18th Century
• Boucher: The Love Letter
• Chardin: The Kitchen Maid 
• Chardin: The Attentive Nurse
• Greuze: Portrait of La Live de Jully 
• Deshays: Herdsmen Driving Cattle across a Stream 
• La Promenade Vernet 

(Le Parnasse des Lettres)