Denis Diderot (oct 5, 1713 – jul 31, 1784)
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Originally the son of artisans, Diderot first entered the church before leaving and working as a law clerk. He achieved fame in the Enlightenment era chiefly for editing arguably the key text, his Encyclopédie, which took up over twenty years of his life. However, he wrote widely on science, philosophy and the arts, as well as plays and fiction, but left many of his works unpublished, partly a result of being imprisoned for his early writings. Consequently, Diderot only gained his reputation as one of the titans of the Enlightenment after his death, when his work was published.Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot
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oct 5, 1713
jul 31, 1784
~ 70 years