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- adjective Of or pertaining to Denis Diderot (1713–1784), prominent
French philosopher ,art critic , andwriter of theEnlightenment .
Etymologies
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Perhaps half a dozen comedies, such, for instance, as The Ideas of M.dame Aubray, by M. Dumas, are of the genre serieux, but certainly there are not enough of such comedies to constitute a genuine Diderotian school in France.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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Beaumarchais, who at last achieved such a dazzling and portentous success by one dramatic masterpiece, began his career as a playwright by following the vein of The Father of the Family; but The Marriage of Figaro, though not without strong traces of Diderotian sentiment in pungent application, yet is in its structure and composition less French than Spanish.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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_The Marriage of Figaro_, though not without strong traces of Diderotian sentiment in pungent application, yet is in its structure and composition less French than Spanish.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880
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In talking of Rome, he complains in a very Diderotian spirit of the want of _le beau moral_.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880
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_genre sérieux_, but certainly there are not enough of such comedies to constitute a genuine Diderotian school in France.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880
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