How to pronounce“Diderot”in English

Diderot's unpublished books, essays, and criticism far surpassed what he had published during his lifetime.

Diderot's effusive art criticism inspired Stendhal, Balzac, and Baudelaire.

Diderot's final cache, the lost collection of manuscripts that he had given to his daughter, had at last been found.

He used to be Diderot's best friend.

After removing Diderot's lead coffin from the vault, the men simply shook his decomposing body onto the church's marble floor.

To become familiar with Diderot's work is to be stupefied.

Émile Zola credited Diderot's vivisections of society as the foundation of the naturalism that characterized his and Balzac's novels.

Social theorists too were spellbound by Diderot's prescient thought.

The full extent of Diderot's influence was not known, however, until a young German academic, Herbert Dieckmann, located the final lost cache of Diderot's writings.

Having heard rumors that Diderot's conservative descendants continued to possess some of the lost manuscripts originally given to the writer's daughter,

Perhaps the most significant addition to Diderot's corpus came in 1890 when a librarian discovered a complete manuscript version of Diderot's masterpiece,

And the most telling anecdote regarding Diderot's intellectual exuberance comes from Catherine the Great-- the great Empress of all the Russians--

And six months after his death, 32 bound volumes of manuscripts along with Diderot's entire library of 3,000 books

He was confronted with an enormous stockpile of Diderot's bound manuscripts.

The following day, Diderot's remains, along with the other desiccated cadavers from the crypt, where presumably gathered up and transferred

Karl Marx, who borrowed deeply from Diderot's musings on class struggle, listed the writer as his favorite author.

The last time I was there, somebody gave me a knife, which was a replica of a knife that was made by Diderot's father.