Diderot

And in January, Millah Gilbert, a Diderot graduate, joined the team.

Denis Diderot, the philosopher and art critic, also was a big admirer.

The University of Paris, set up last year through a merger of Paris-Descartes University and Paris Diderot University, is now under the same charge.

The answer may seem obvious: Diderot is writing about the transformation in knowledge that we now call the Scientific Revolution.

Figures like Diderot and Hume derived some of their ideas on liberty from classical texts, where they found declarations of political and personal freedoms.