Louis de Jaucourt

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Louis de Jaucourt
Born	(1704-09-16)16 September 1704 Paris, France
Died	3 February 1779(1779-02-03) (aged 74) Compiègne, France
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Physician, philosophe, writer
Known for	Encyclopédie

Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt (French: [də ʒokuʁ]; 16 September 1704 – 3 February 1779) was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie. He wrote about 17,000 articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopaedia, all done voluntarily.^[1] In the generations after the Encyclopédie's, mainly due to his aristocratic background, his legacy was largely overshadowed by the more bohemian Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and others, but by the mid-20th century more scholarly attention was being paid to him.