Editing Encyclopédie (section)

==Contributors==
Since the objective of the editors of the ''Encyclopédie'' was to gather all the knowledge in the world, Diderot and D'Alembert knew they would need various contributors to help them with their project.<ref>Brewer 2011, p. 56.</ref> Many of the [[philosophes]] ([[intellectuals]] of the French [[The Enlightenment|Enlightenment]]) contributed to the ''Encyclopédie'', including Diderot himself, [[Voltaire]], [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]], and [[Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]].<ref name=autogenerated2 /> The most prolific contributor was [[Louis de Jaucourt]], who wrote 17,266 articles between 1759 and 1765, or about eight per day, representing a full 25% of the ''Encyclopédie''.

The publication became a place where these contributors could share their ideas and interests, still, as [[Frank Kafker]] has argued, the Encyclopedists were not a unified group:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.camargofoundation.org/fellowdetails_new05.asp?recno=357 |title=Fellow Project Details |publisher=The Camargo Foundation |access-date=March 26, 2013}}</ref>

{{blockquote|... despite their reputation, [the Encyclopedists] were not a close-knit group of [[Radicalization|radicals]] intent on subverting the Old Regime in France. Instead they were a disparate group of men of letters, physicians, scientists, craftsmen and scholars ... even the small minority who were persecuted for writing articles belittling what they viewed as unreasonable customs—thus weakening the might of the Catholic Church and undermining that of the monarchy—did not envision that their ideas would encourage a revolution.}}

Following is a list of notable contributors with their area of contribution (for a more detailed list, see [[Encyclopédistes]]):

*[[Jean Le Rond d'Alembert]] – editor; science (especially mathematics), contemporary affairs, philosophy, religion, among others
*[[Claude Bourgelat]] – manège, farriery
*[[André le Breton]] – chief publisher; article on printer's ink<!--to be noted elsewhere: he was the only person to have participated for the entire duration of the project.-->
*[[Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton]] – natural history
*[[Denis Diderot]] – chief editor; economics, mechanical arts, philosophy, politics, religion, among others
*[[Baron d'Holbach]] – science (chemistry, mineralogy), politics, religion, among others
*[[Louis de Jaucourt|Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt]] – economics, literature, medicine, politics, bookbinding, among others
*[[Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle]] – mathematics
*[[Abbé]] [[André Morellet]] – theology, philosophy
*[[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]] – part of the article "Goût" ("Taste")
*[[François Quesnay]] – articles on tax farmers and grain
*[[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] – music, political theory
*[[Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune]] – economics, etymology, philosophy, physics
*[[Voltaire]] – history, literature, philosophy

Due to the controversial nature of some of the articles, several of its editors were sent to jail.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Ian|title=An Encyclopedia Brown story: Bound and determined to fight for the facts in the time of Trump|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/an-encyclopedia-ian-brown-story/article35586033/|access-date=8 July 2017|work=[[The Globe and Mail]]|date=8 July 2017}}</ref>