Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt was a French scholar, and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie. Voluntarily writing some 17,000 articles in all, his contributions amounted to around 25% of the entire work. His subjects included physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history.
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deceased
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Lived 1704 to 1779 · aged 74
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