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Annie Becq, « L'Encyclopédie: le choix de l'ordre alphabétique », Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, ID : 10.3406/rde.1995.1467
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Annie Becq : The Encyclopédie: the Choice of Alphabetical Order. A few lines from the Préface to Chamber's Cyclopœdia help us to understand the importance of the two Encyclopédie editors' choice of alphabetical order for both the encyclopædic and the genealogical orders. It was a paradoxical attempt at reconciliation which probably corresponded in important ways to Diderot's permanent fundamental concern, which was to go beyond the inadequacies of discursive linearity and to invent forms which could present or suggest multidimensional depth, echoes, ramifications and mental and physical reality.