Charles Millot (circa 1717 in
Duchy of Lorraine
The Duchy of Lorraine (french: Lorraine ; german: Lothringen ), originally Upper Lorraine, was a duchy now included in the larger present-day region of Lorraine in northeastern France. Its capital was Nancy.
It was founded in 959 following t ...
– 9 June 1769,
Brabant-le-Roi) was an 18th-century cleric.
A priest of
Loisey from 1743 to 1769 then in Brabant-le-Roi until his death, Millot contributed the ''
Encyclopédie
''Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers'' (English: ''Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts''), better known as ''Encyclopédie'', was a general encyclopedia publis ...
'' by
Diderot
Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominen ...
and
D'Alembert
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (; ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the ''Encyclopéd ...
the articles ''affabilité'' and ''entêtement'', where he attacked the great and the devotees.
He was a member of the ''Société littéraire de Châlons-sur-Marne''.
Bibliography
* Frank Arthur Kafker
''The Encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie'' Oxford, Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth Century, 1988, p. 258.
External links
Charles Milloton Wikisource
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18th-century French Roman Catholic priests
Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772)
People from Lorraine (duchy)
1720s births
1769 deaths