"The encyclop\u00E9distes were a group of 18th-century writers in France who compiled and wrote the Encyclop\u00E9die, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. More than a hundred encyclop\u00E9distes have been identified. Many were part of the intellectual group known as the philosophes. They promoted the advancement of science and secular thought and supported tolerance, rationality, and open-mindedness of the Enlightenment."@en .