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Denis Diderot (/ ˈ d iː d ə r oʊ /; [2] 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.
Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (French: Jacques le fataliste et son maître) is a novel by Denis Diderot, written during the period 1765–1780.The first French edition was published posthumously in 1796, but it was known earlier in Germany, thanks to Schiller's partial translation, which appeared in 1785 and was retranslated into French in 1793, as well as Mylius's complete German ...
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Le Père de famille (English: The Father of the family) is a 1758 play by Denis Diderot. Diderot followed this play with a treatise on theatre entitled Discours sur la poésie dramatique. In 1765, the play was parodised by Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet.
Le Fils naturel, ou Les épreuves de la vertu (English: The Natural Son) is a 1757 play by Denis Diderot.Diderot followed the play with a treatise on theatre entitled Entretiens sur le fils naturel; this, and Diderot's other publications on theatre, was largely responsible for the play attaining canonical status.
The recounted story takes place in the Café de la Régence, where Moi ("Me"), a narrator-like persona (often mistakenly supposed to stand for Diderot himself), describes for the reader a recent encounter he has had with the character Lui ("Him"), referring to—yet not literally meaning—Jean-François Rameau, the nephew of the famous composer, [6] who has engaged him in an intricate battle ...
This intention is confirmed by the initial title of Madame de La Carlière, Second conte (French for Second story), and by the allusions to characters or developments of one of the stories in another. Subsequently, though, the editors did not respect this material and intellectual unity and the texts were edited separately.
La Religieuse (novel). La Religieuse (also called The Nun or Memoirs of a Nun) is an 18th-century French novel by Denis Diderot.Completed in about 1780, it was first published by Friedrich Melchior Grimm in 1792 (eight years after Diderot's death) in his Correspondance littéraire in Saxony, and subsequently in 1796 in France.