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Diderot (Dennis Diderot)

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Diderot (Dennis Diderot)

1713–1784 (71 years) His father a cutler, good man—mother also good D. educated well by the Jesuits. Came to Paris a young man—lived ten years a loafer, a rascal, a literary hack Emerged by degrees—is the back‑bone and brain of the French Encyclopoedia (The Enc. was some years (12, 16, or 20) in being finished.) Diderot was befriended by the Russian Empress Catherine—she gave him £3000. It is said of him that he had the most encyclopoedical head ever in the world, and was a most superb talker. Diderot with his mouth of gold
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Walter Whitman Classon Avenue near Myrtle Av Brooklyn
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