Abstract
This research has the aim to make a reassessment of the existing historiography, until now, on the encyclopedist Louis Chevalier de Jaucourt (1704-1780). Even though he is the author of about 28% of the articles of Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie, historians have shown relatively little interest on his figure. This situation aroused our interest in the subject, but simultaneously co…