Charles Millot (circa 1717 in

Duchy of Lorraine The Duchy of Lorraine was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire which existed from the 10th century until 1766 when it was annexed by the kingdom of France. It gave its name to the larger present-day region of Lorraine in northeastern France ...

– 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 , better known as ''Encyclopédie'' (), was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. It had many writers, known as the Encyclopédistes. It was edited by Denis ...

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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 along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during t ...

and

D'Alembert Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert ( ; ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanics, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the ''E ...

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.

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