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170 Pages·1993·6.217 MB·English
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~x.,. t ' -<•'• - 5—-'''A . '■ • i,. d.- ,4v -r- J■V■i■■■ '' i ^ 5- S' ' I fc:..-.. J- ® ■<; -> V 4 ■'> A ;k'. V ' 'W#- : ■ - < X;>; v.' . ■■■; . • A•■?' '■ '• 'M- 4^5 A : •>■;■ 7;;^ ■„• <■..• ■ M 2—Vl 6 '%W JmW I sft." 1 I ■■ 20^?^ blueprint A Study of Diderot and the Encyclopedic Plates Stephen Werner r SljM Birming^^^ONS, INC. 1993 labama i r __ T Copyright 1993 Summa Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-917786-96-3 Library of Congress Catalog Number 93-83303 Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. Frontispiece plate by courtesy of UCLA Special Collections; other plates (“Batteur d’or," “Machines de Theatre,” “Pav6 des Gcants," “Metier a faire des Bas,” “Bouchonnier,” and “Architecture,” pp. 123-28) by courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino. - For my mother in memory r a. Contents Acknowledgments ix I. Obstetrix Animorum 1 II. The Order of the Plates 13 III. Tant urn de medio sumptis accedit honoris! 35 IV. A Picture Book of Paris 63 V. Blueprint 87 VI. From the Illustrated to the Pictorial 113 Plates 121 Notes 129 Bibliography 149 I I J^lcknovoled^ments This book had its origins in a symposium on the Encyclopedie planned at the Clark Library in 1986 with Robert Shackleton but which, because of the untimely death of Professor Shackleton, never took place. I am grateful, nevertheless, to Robert Vosper for having arranged this event. My work on Diderot was further stimulated by Annie Becq, whose 1987 conference on L’ Encyclopedisme in Caen I had the good fortune to take part in. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Helen Hye-Leen Chang for her unfailingly generous labors as my Research Assistant and her personal commitment to the project from its inception. William Moffett and Cathy Cherbosque of the Huntington Library and David Zeidberg of UCLA Special Collections kindly allowed me to make photographic reproductions of the Encyclopedie plates used as illustrations for this book. I ! I Obstetrix S^nimorum “11 nous a fallu exercer avec eux la fonction dont se glorifiait Socrate, la fonction penible & deli­ cate de faire accoucher les esprits, obstetrix animorum." Diderot, Prospectus} JTlmong the holdings of the Royal library in Madrid is a first edition of Diderot’s Encyclopedic (1751-72). Each one of the seventeen folio volumes of text contains the following warning on its inside cover written in bold India ink: “All volumes prohibited, except those containing plates.” The eleven volumes of plates, or planches as they were called, bear no such restriction.2 The phrase draws attention to the suspicion in which French ideas were held in a country which did not experience the ferment of the philosophe movement and which only began to authorize partial translations of the Encyclopedic until well into the twentieth century.3 Yet “Prohibido todos los libros menos los de las laminas” can also be thought of as having another meaning. It dramatizes the low regard in which the plates were held not only on the Iberian Peninsula but in Diderot’s native France as well. Encyclopedic engravings were considered to be decorations or anecdotal supplements to the main body of philosophical text. As the “least contro­ versial” part of Diderot’s work they could be looked at, even studied at length, with little consequence. None of the major articles of the Encyclopedic, for example, such as de Prade’s “Certitude,” Rousseau’s “Economic politique,” Diderot’s “Ency­ clopedic” or contributions on literary themes by Voltaire and Montesquieu, had plates. These contributions were essayistic in nature. They were

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