Discover Denis Diderot's France with this handy dandy guide (via andrewscurran)
Three hundred years ago, the author and philosopher Denis Diderot predicted that, according to author Andrew Curran,"The real threat to American democracy would not come from foreign powers; it would stem directly from the country’s future successes: unbridled luxury, class tensions, political corruption, venality, and, in the worst scenario, the rise of a cynical autocrat who turns his back on the founding values of the Republic.
The center of Langres also proudly displays a huge bronze statue of Diderot, which was sculpted by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the famed creator of the Statue of Liberty. Careful observers will notice that the anticlerical politicians who commissioned the work in the 1880s positioned this statue in such a way that Diderot was turning his back on the city’s most prominent landmark, the twelfth-century Saint-Mammès Cathedral.
Diderot’s apartment house, along with his rue Taranne neighborhood, no longer exist; both were razed in the 1860s to make way for the Boulevard Saint-Germain. Today, an Armani boutique occupies the precise space where, in the 1750s, a wigmaker rented the ground floor storefront of Diderot’s building.Diderot’s presence can nonetheless be felt in his former neighborhood.
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