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Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2)

CHAPTER V
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But the last stone was at length laid.

In 1765 the subscribers received the concluding ten volumes of letterpress.

The eleven volumes of plates were not completed until 1772.
The copies bore Neufchatel on the title-page, and were distributed privately.

The clergy in their assembly at once levelled a decree at the new book.

The parliament quashed this, not from love of the book, but from hatred of the clergy.


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