In 1746, his unorthodox ideas in the "Letter on the Blind" and "Letter on the Deaf and Dumb" landed him in the Vincennes prison for three months. Upon his release, his friend Lebreton suggested that he translate a popular work by Ephraim Chambers into his native French. For ten points, name this man who, instead of a mere translation, produced the seventeen-volume scholarly opus known as the Encyclopedie.
In 1746, his unorthodox ideas in the "Letter on the Blind" and "Letter on the Deaf and Dumb" landed him in the Vincennes prison for three months. Upon his release, his friend Lebreton suggested that he translate a popular work by Ephraim Chambers into his native French. For ten points, name this man who, instead of a mere translation, produced the seventeen-volume scholarly opus known as the Encyclopedie.
In 1746, his unorthodox ideas in the "Letter on the Blind" and "Letter on the Deaf and Dumb" landed him in the Vincennes prison for three months.