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How Diderot’s pleas to end despotism fell on deaf ears in Russia

23 March 2019

9:00 AM

23 March 2019

9:00 AM

Denis Diderot (1713–84) is the least commemorated of the philosophes. Calls for his remains to be moved to the Panthéon on the tricentenary of his birth in 2013 were ignored. He has not taken his place alongside Rousseau and Voltaire in the Parisian vaults of fame, even though he was no less radical or progressive.

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