Editing Denis Diderot (section)

==Modern tributes==
[[File:Diderot-statue.jpg|thumb|Monument to Denis Diderot in Paris, [[6th arrondissement of Paris|6th arrondissement]], by [[Jean Gautherin]]]]

[[Otis Fellows]] and Norman Torrey have described Diderot as "the most interesting and provocative figure of the French eighteenth century."<ref>{{citation |author = Ottis Fellows and Norman Torrey|title=Diderot Studies |volume=1|year=1949 |page=vii}}</ref>

In 1993, American writer Cathleen Schine published ''Rameau's Niece'', a satire of academic life in New York that took as its premise a woman's research into an (imagined) 18th-century pornographic parody of Diderot's ''Rameau's Nephew''. The book was praised by Michiko Kakutani in the ''New York Times'' as "a nimble philosophical satire of the academic mind" and "an enchanting comedy of modern manners."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/11/specials/schine-niece.html|title=Specials|website=www.nytimes.com}}</ref>

French author Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt wrote a play titled ''Le Libertin'' (''The Libertine'') which imagines a day in Diderot's life including a fictional sitting for a woman painter which becomes sexually charged but is interrupted by the demands of editing the ''Encyclopédie''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eric-emmanuel-schmitt.com/theatre.cfm?nomenclatureId=1796&catalogid=801&&lang=EN|title=Theatre|website=www.eric-emmanuel-schmitt.com}}</ref> It was first staged at Paris' Théâtre Montparnasse in 1997 starring Bernard Giraudeau as Diderot and Christiane Cohendy as Madame Therbouche and was well received by critics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theatreonline.com/Artiste/Eric-Emmanuel-Schmitt/9756|title=Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt|website=www.theatreonline.com}}</ref>

In 2013, the 300th anniversary of Diderot's birth, his hometown of Langres held a series of events in his honor and produced an audio tour of the town highlighting places that were part of Diderot's past, including the remains of the convent where his sister Angélique took her vows.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://diderot2013-langres.fr/|title=Club de trading IQ Option & eToro Diderot|publisher=Club basé à Diderot Langres|website=diderot2013-langres.fr|access-date=14 May 2014|archive-date=2 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502172003/http://diderot2013-langres.fr/|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 6 October 2013, a museum of the Enlightenment focusing on Diderot's contributions to the movement, the [[Denis Diderot House Of Enlightenment (France)|Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot]], was inaugurated in Langres.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://champagne-ardenne.france3.fr/diderot-2013-langres-en-fete|title=Diderot 2013, Langres en fête |date=23 June 2023 |publisher=France 3 Grand Est}}</ref>

The French government considered memorializing the 300th anniversary of his birth,<ref>{{cite news |last=Curran|first=Andrew S.|title=Diderot, an American Exemplar? Bien Sûr!|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/opinion/diderot-an-american-exemplar-bien-sur.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/opinion/diderot-an-american-exemplar-bien-sur.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited|access-date=27 January 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=24 January 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> but this did not come to pass.