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Lough, J. “Mme Geoffrin and the

‘Encyclopédie.’” The Modern

Language Review, vol.

58, no. 2, Modern Humanities

Research Association, 1963,

pp. 219-22. JSTOR,

JSTOR, doi:10.2307/3721252.

 

In this brief article, Lough inspects

the claim that Madame Geoffrin

assisted the editors of the

Encyclopédie financially upon the

suppression of the work in 1759. He

notes that Geoffrin has been featured

in various exhibitions and journals

throughout the past century and

notices that in the 1951 exhibition run

by the Bibliothèque nationale a quote

from Legras’s Diderot et

l’Encyclopédie claiming that Madame

Geoffrin donated one million écus to

support the encyclopedic cause.

However, as Lough points out,

scholars would be hard pressed to

find and evidence for such a donation.

Any references to the mentioned

occasion cite no sources and provide

no further discussion. Lough, through

his searches of record books

and notaires (ledgers) ultimately

claims that the Encyclopédie was not

at risk for debt (only their profits

were affected, not savings) and that

while Madame Geoffrin did in fact

provide financial support to groups of

writers, she did not do so to save

the Encyclopédie in 1759.

Basic Information

Country of Publication: United Kingdom

Language: English

Decade: 1960s

Main Classification: Geoffrin, Finances

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Notes

1. Lough provides quotes from a couple authors. These quotes are kept in their original French (not translated to English).

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