Talk:Denis Diderot

message: His heirs sold his vast library to Catherine II, who had it deposited at the Russian National Library.
The sentence above that statement however tells of him selling the library to Catherine II! Was it sold twice or weren't the books actually just moved as she had bought them and he had looked after them until his death? I'm a bit fuzzy on this but never heard of the heirs selling the books the second time. --Stalfur 01:42, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Library sold twice? 

message: I just reverted an anonymous edit that Diderot was not only a noted philosopher and writer, but a gynecologist.  It may be true, but I didn't find confirmation of it with some Googling, so until a citation appears, I think let's keep it out. -GTBacchus(talk) 01:49, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gynecologist? 

message: The article states that Diderot died of Anal Leakage (sic). This can't be true; even if it is, I suspect there is a more scientific term? --Benn M. (talk) 09:03, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anal Leakage 

message: Actually, I found that first discussion (about making Diderot a "saint") quite humorous (although maybe that had a serious meaning). Maybe you should consider putting that in Meta-Wiki Category:Humor. lol May his spirit continue to bless this encyclopedia (and maybe Jimbo, too. lol again).
--69.170.0.207 14:19, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Humorous? 

message: Why were both La Religieuse (1760) and Jacques le fataliste et son maître (1771-1778) published after his death? And why precisely 1796 for both novels? Anyone?  --Jahsonic 10:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, according to my French copy of Jacques (1997 ed.), Diderot was still reworking his novel between 1780 and 1783 (i.e. a year before his death), although he did allow it to circulate in manuscript (both Goethe and Schiller had read it while he was still alive). I'd hazard a guess he was just addicted to revising his works and didn't want to send them to the printer before they were perfect. His death put a stop to all that revision. Why they took ten years to reach the press, I don't know. I'm not sure whether the French Revolution coming in 1789 had any effect on matters either. --Folantin 16:19, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks --Jahsonic 16:29, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1796 

message: Re  EMULATION.  ...in emulation of Laurence Sterne..., the article states. But Jacques is a running commentary (nearly 20 years of "gonflements successifs", as Chouillet calls them) on Sterne's magnum opus. Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim are part of Diderot's novel. Diderot even discusses right in the novel itself the possibility that Sterne might be emulating him, Diderot (some professors of literature do not even understand a joke when they are the butt of it). Sterne, of course, never thought for a second that his friend was trying in any way to emulate him. But that was the 18th century. Another galaxy... --BZ(Bruno Zollinger) 08:33, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Jacques le Fataliste

message: Re  UNDIGESTED. What makes the "Lettre sur les aveugles" interesting, the article tells us, is its presentation, in a distinct though undigested form, of the theory of variation and natural selection. Frankly, I don't see which passage or passages in this or any other of Diderot's essays could - by any stretch of the imagination - be interpreted as a presentation of the theory of natural selection, digested or undigested. Well, maybe my French isn't good enough...--BZ(Bruno Zollinger) 18:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What makes the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' interesting.

message: That doesn't sound right, and nothing in the article suggests such a thing. I'm removing the category. If I'm mistaken, my apologies... but I would like to see a source for his having written erotica. (Diderotica?) Dpbsmith (talk) 16:10, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Re  DIDEROTICA.  Removerotica? The article does mention a volume of "bawdy" stories. And then, of course, there are some French people who think that the Religieuse is erotica. But you're right, this is not the French Wikipedia.--BZ(Bruno Zollinger) 09:35, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The category would have been added because of Les Bijoux Indiscrets. One book I read described the stories as 'pornographic' (interestingly enough it was these stories that launched his literary career). Currently I think that the category should be added again, though I'll do a little more research before acting. Galanskov 23:39, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry about the belated response. I took a look through a couple books and I'd say that he can be described as an erotica writer. His works feature many sexual references, and while this is not itself sufficient cause for calling his works erotica, their particularly graphic nature qualifies him for entry into the category. Galanskov 00:35, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it possible to ask you to cite examples without sounding (or, in fact, being...) prurient? Geeman 00:43, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Category: Erotica writers?

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message: Several sources (Wikidata, viaf, summarizing other sources) have September 1753, not 1743, for her birth, so, confused? ELSchissel (talk) 10:43, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthyear of (Marie-)Angélique Diderot-Vandeul