Louis De Jaucourt - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Louis De Jaucourt
- Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt (French: [d? ?oku?]; 16 September 1704 – 3 February 1779) was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie.
- He wrote about 18,000 articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopaedia, all done voluntarily.
- In the generations after the Encyclopédie's, mainly due to his aristocratic background, his legacy was largely overshadowed by the more bohemian Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and others, but by the mid-20th century more scholarly attention was being paid to him.
