Jean le Rond D'Alembert

(b. Nov. 16, 1717, Paris, Île-de-France, France – d. Oct. 29, 1783, Paris, Île-de-France, France )

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Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d’Alembert (1717-1783) was the illegitimate son of Madame de Tencin, a Parisian salonnière, who abandoned him at birth on the steps of the nearest church. His father paid for his education, and as a young man he was renowned as a mathematician and music theorist. He joined with Denis Diderot to edit the Encyclopédie, which spread the anti-monarchist and anti-clerical ideas of the philosophes.

Also known as:

Jean le Rond D'Alembert

Mentioned in 4 letters

Title	EMCO ID
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Elizabeth Carter	1083
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Elizabeth Carter	1742
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Elizabeth Carter	3089
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to John Burrows	4539

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