Compiling this collection made them - the Encyclopedists, as they came to be called - the most feared men in all of Versailles and the intellectual leaders of the French Revolution.

Including a revision of Diderot's Prospectus and a list of contributors to the Encyclopedia, this edition, elegantly translated and introduced by Professor Richard Schwab, is one of the great works of the Enlightenment and an outstanding ...

This tale of entrepreneurial greed and intrigue, with its colorful cast of characters, examines the means of cultural communication in eighteenth century Europe.