André Le Breton
André François Le Breton (born 1708 in Paris, 5 October 1779) is a French novelist and publisher. He was accompanied by Michel-Antoine David, Laurent Durand and Antoine-Claude Briasson, one of four publishers of the Great French Encyclopedia. Le Breton wrote several articles for l'Encyclopédie, but was primarily a publisher and occasional editor (often against the will of the main editor of Diderot) of this encyclopedia.
In 1745 Le Breton decided to publish a translation of the English encyclopaedia. Cyclopaedia published in 1728 by Ephraim Chambers. After difficulties with the translation, Le Breton finally decided to publish a separate French encyclopedia and in 1747 was editor-in-chief was Diderot.
Le Breton occasionally censored some of the encyclopedia's terms, causing Diderot's rage. Although in the eighteenth century it was believed that the original content of these articles could not be recovered because they were burned (Friedrich von Grimma view of 1777) - the size of Breton censorship was demonstrated in the twentieth century. Censorship was most affected by the slogans Sarrasins Ou Arabes and Pyrrhoniene philosophies. In the case of the latter, Le Breton changed them to be less favorable to Pierre Bayle, a seventeenth-century philosopher whose views were not accepted at the time. Authoritative control (person):
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