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RAMEAU’ S NEPHEW

FIRST SATIRE

D D (–) was born at Langres in Champagne, the

son of a master cutler who wanted him to follow a career in the Church.

He attended the best Paris schools, took a degree in theology in but

turned away from religion and tried his hand brie ﬂ y at law before deciding

to make his way as a translator and writer. In , he was invited to

provide a French version of Ephraim Chambers’s Cyclopaedia ().

The project became the Encyclopaedia ( Encyclopédie , –), intended

to be a compendium of human knowledge in all ﬁ elds but also the

embodiment of the new ‘philosophic’ spirit of intellectual enquiry. As

editor-in-chief, Diderot became the impresario of the French Enlighten-

ment. But ideas were dangerous, and in Diderot was imprisoned for

four months for publishing opinions judged contrary to religion and the

public good. He became a star of the salons, where he was known as a

brilliant conversationalist. He invented art criticism, and devised a new

form of theatre which would determine the shape of European drama.

But in private he pursued ideas of startling orginality in texts like Sup-

plement to Bougainville’s Voyage ( Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville )

and D’Alembert’s Dream ( Le Rêve de d’Alembert ), which for the most part

were not published until after his death. He anticipated DNA, Darwin,

and modern genetics, but also discussed the human and ethical implica-

tions of biological materialism in ﬁ ctions –– The Nun ( La Religieuse ),

Rameau’s Nephew ( Le Neveu de Rameau ), and Jacques the Fatalist ( Jacques

le fataliste ) –– which seem more at home in our century than in his. His

life, spent among books, was uneventful and he rarely strayed far from

Paris. In , though, he travelled to St Petersburg to meet his patron,

Catherine II. But his hopes of persuading her to implement his ‘philo-

sophic’ ideas failed, and in he returned to Paris where he continued

talking and writing until his death in .

M M has worked as a translator since .

For Oxford World’s Classics she has translated Zola’s L’Assommoir ,

Stendhal’s The Charterhouse of Parma , Maupassant’s Bel-Ami ,

Constant’s Adolphe , Huysmans’s Against Nature (winner of the Scott

Moncrie ﬀ prize for translation, ), and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary .

N C is Director of the Voltaire Foundation and General

Editor of The Complete Works of Voltaire , and Fellow of St Edmund Hall,

Oxford. For Oxford World’s Classics he has edited Voltaire’s Letters

concerning the English Nation and Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac .

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OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS

DENIS DIDEROT

Rameau’s Nephew

and

First Satire

Translated by

MARGARET MAULDON

With an Introduction and Notes by

NICHOLAS CRONK

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Diderot, Denis, 1713–1784.

[Neveu de Rameau. English]

Rameau’s nephew ; and, First satire / Denis Diderot ; translated by Margaret Mauldon ;

with an introduction and notes by Nicholas Cronk.

p. cm. –– (Oxford world’s classics)

Includes bibliographical references.

I. Mauldon, Margaret. II. Cronk, Nicholas. III. Diderot, Denis, 1713–1784.

Satire première. English. IV. Title. V. Title: First satire. VI. Series: Oxford world’s

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