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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond D'alembert, Vincent of Beauvais, Jean-François Marmontel, Louis de Jaucourt, Louis-Élisabeth de La Vergne de Tressan, Raymond Borremans, Jacques-André Naigeon, Pierre-Jean Grosley, Pierre Larousse, Louis Moréri, Jean-Pierre Nicéron, Louis-Jacques Goussier, Pierre Abraham, Pierre Tarin, Marc-Antoine Eidous, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard, Augustin Roux, Dominique Frémy, Charles-Georges le Roy. Excerpt: Augustin Roux (Bordeaux 1726 - Paris 1776) was a French doctor, encyclopedist and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment . Roux studied medicine in his hometown of Bordeaux , received his doctorate in 1750 and then came to Paris where, on the recommendation of Montesquieu , he was able to obtain the financial support that his family had refused him as punishment for not pursuing an ecclesiastical career. After learning English, Roux translated several English books into French, taught a course of medicine and worked as doctor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. He succeeded Vandermonde as editor of the Journal of Medicine in 1762. His extensive knowledge of chemistry resulted in his appointment as professor of science at the Faculty in 1771. Roux regularly attended the salon of Baron d'Holbach . A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Charles-Georges Le Roy Charles-Georges Le Roy or Leroy (1723 1789) was a French man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment and the author of one of the first books on animal behavior. Le Roy was a lieutenant of the royal hunt and a friend of the encyclopedists Diderot , d'Alembert and d'Holbach , regularly attending d'Holbach's salon . Le Roy's publications began as texts on the behaviour and sensitivity of animals, published under the pseudonym of "the physician of Nuremberg." These ap...