User:Snoyes/references
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References are very useful. For example, if someone questions the validity or origin of the information you add to an article. I will attempt to list references for the material that I add to certain pages. I won't do it for all pages, but rather for those that on which I do significant work.
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Jean d'Alembert by John Grimsley. (1963)
The Encyclopédie
- Jean d'Alembert by John Grimsley. (1963)
- [1] — for the statistical data on the encyclopedia
Baron d'Holbach
- Baron d'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France by Max Pearson Cushing, published 1914.
Date of death
- The Dictionaire des Philosophes published 1984 by "Presses Universitaires de France" states that d'Holbach died in the first weeks of the French Revolution. Among the other works that state the time of death as June 1789 are:[to come]
- The date of January 1789 is given by The Encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie by Frank A. Kafker and Serena L. Kafker. Published 1988 in the Studies of Voltaire and the eighteenth century. More specifically, this text states that "He died six months before the fall of the Bastille."
