"Fraternal Adversary" of Voltaire, Denis Diderot (1713-1784) conjugated to a vast work that extends from literary works and philosophical works to art criticism and the study of organisms alive-theses of English deism sensualist with materialism the empiricism of Locke and former Lucretian atomism of inspiration. Your name (along with those of Voltaire, Montesquieu, La Mettrie, Rousseau, Condorcet, D'Alembert, Condillac, Sade ...) is at the very center of this extraordinary intellectual adventure that took place in the eighteenth century France, in the Republique des Lettres that will reach its most sublime to the Encyclopedia, collective project of a reasoned dictionary of the sciences, the arts and crafts that culminated in seventeen volumes fruit.