Pierre Mouchon (30 July 1733 – 20 August 1797) was an 18th-century

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pastor, best remembered for being the author of the ''Table analytique et raisonnée...'' (index) of the ''

Encyclopédie ''Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers'' (English: ''Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts''), better known as ''Encyclopédie'', was a general encyclopedia publis ...

'' by

Diderot Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominen ...

and

D'Alembert Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (; ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the ''Encyclopédie ...

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The son of a watchmaker, Minister of the French cult in Basel (1766) and Geneva (1788), keen on mathematics and astronomy, known to

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolu ...

, Pierre Mouchon undertook from 1774 to 1775, the development of what would become the ''Table analytique et raisonnée des matières contenues dans les XXXIII volumes in-folio du Dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des métiers'' published in two volumes in 1780, in Paris by

Charles-Joseph Panckoucke Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (; 26 November 1736 – 19 December 1798) was a French writer and publisher. He was responsible for numerous influential publications of the era, including the literary journal ''Mercure de France'' and the ''Encyclopéd ...

and in Amsterdam, by

Marc-Michel Rey Marc-Michel Rey (; 5 May 1720 – 8 June 1780) was an influential publisher in the United Provinces, who published many of the works of the French '' philosophes'', including Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In his day, he was the largest and most important ...

, the two co publishers of the '' Supplément à l'Encyclopédie''. Nicknamed "Mouchon table", it consists of an analytical and summary index of the entire corpus of the ''Encyclopédie'', supplements included, and contains thematic knowledge tree views. The warning also points out ''l'on peut regarder cette Table comme un Abrégé du fameux Dictionnaire tpeut même le remplacer en bien des occasions'' ("this Table may be looked at as an Abstract of the famous Dictionary ndmay even replace it on many occasions". What this warning fails to say is that Mouchon did ignore the anti-Christian passages (related to

materialism Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds matter to be the fundamental substance in nature, and all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions. According to philosophical materiali ...

) that dot here and there the Dictionary... According to

Jean Senebier Jean Senebier (6 or 25 May 1742 – 22 July 1809) was a Genevan Calvinist pastor and naturalist. He was chief librarian of the Republic of Geneva. A pioneer in the field of photosynthesis research, he provided extensive evidence that plants co ...

,J. Senebier,
Histoire littéraire de Genève
', 1788, vol. 3 Mouchon received for this work, which probably required him paring all 33 volumes, the lump sum of 4,800

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; the manuscript was then typeset in particular by the famous De Tournes family.

Eugénie Niboyet Eugénie Mouchon-Niboyet (September 10, 1796 – January 6, 1883) was a French author, journalist and early feminist. She is best known for founding '' La Voix des Femmes'' (''The Women's Voice''), the first feminist daily newspaper in France. Sh ...

(1796–1883), a French author, journalist and early feminist, was a granddaughter of Pierre Mouchon.

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par Jean Vaucher, DIRO/Université de Montréal {{DEFAULTSORT:Mouchon, Pierre Calvinist and Reformed ministers 1733 births 18th-century clergy from the Republic of Geneva 1797 deaths Denis Diderot

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