Encyclopédie Volume VII and D'Alembert's Withdrawal

1757

D'Alembert's article 'Geneva' offended both Calvinists and Rousseau (who thought it celebrated theatres at Geneva's expense). Under pressure, D'Alembert resigned as co-editor. Diderot carried the Encyclopedie alone through the crisis - and the ban of 1759 - into the largest and most dangerous intellectual project of the century. He would discover, to his fury, that his own publisher had been secretly censoring articles behind his back.