Encyclopédie d'Yverdon

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Encylopédie d'Yverdon

The Encyclopédie d'Yverdon is an encyclopedia in French printed between 1770 and 1780 . It was published in Yverdon in Switzerland by the Italian Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice (1723–1789) (called Fortuné-Barthélemy de Félice in French ). It is an important follow-up to the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .

The work comprises 58 volumes in quarto format , which are divided into 42 text volumes, six suppléments (text volumes with additions) and ten table volumes (picture volumes with illustrations ). It has 37,378 pages, with around 75,000 articles and 1,200 illustrations. The entire print run of around 3,000 copies was sold by the Bernese Société Typographique and the bookseller Pierre Gosse in The Hague .

In contrast to other subsequent works of the Paris Encyclopedia, the Encyclopédie d'Yverdon is not a reprint or pirated edition, but a real new version. Felice had the text corpus edited by 34 authors, 27 of whom are known by name. They corrected erroneous articles, added incomplete articles and added numerous new articles. In addition, the religious-critical attitude of Diderot and d'Alembert's work was softened in Felice's edition and replaced by a Protestant perspective, which is why the work was sometimes called the "Protestant encyclopedia" and was particularly popular in Northern Europe.

Main authors

Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice assembled a team of more than 30 European employees (fifteen Swiss, twelve French, three German, one Italian, one Irish):

literature

  • Clorinda Donato; Kathleen Doig: Notices sur les auteurs des quarante-huit volumes de “Discours” de l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon , Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. (1991), pp. 133-141.
  • Jean-Daniel Candaux; Alain Cernuschi et al .: L'encyclopédie d'Yverdon et sa résonance européenne: contextes, contenus, continuités Slatkine, Genève (2005)
  • Léonard Burnand, Alain Cernuschi: Circulation de matériaux entre l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon et quelques dictionnaires spécialisés. In: Dix-huitième siècle , 2006, n ° 38, ISBN 978-2-70715010-3 , pp. 253-267. [1]
  • Simone Zurbuchen: The natural law school in western Switzerland . From Jean Barbeyrac to the Encyclopédie d'Yverdon , in: Patriotism and Cosmolitism. The Swiss Enlightenment between tradition and modernity, Chronos Verlag Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-03-400661-6 .

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