by Sophie Chauveau · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070437450
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«Diderot, le génie débraillé» is Sophie Chauveau's biographical novel about Denis Diderot, published by Folio in paperback (576 pages, in French).
Sophie Chauveau portrays Denis Diderot as an adolescent who flees his father and immerses himself in the Latin Quarter, a young gourmand and seducer living under the watch of Louis XV's censors. The author follows him in his involvement with the Encyclopédie, alongside d'Alembert and La Condamine, up to his journey to Russia to meet Catherine the Great in Saint Petersburg.
First volume of the series «Les encyclopédistes». The edition includes both parts of the work: «Les années bohême» and «Les encyclopédistes».
For readers of historical fiction and eighteenth-century biographies, as well as those interested in the French Enlightenment and its key figures.
