{{Short description|French craftsman}} [[Image:Didier Diderot.jpg|thumb|Didier Diderot (1685–1759), a painting by an unknown artist. Musée d'art et d'histoire de Langres]] '''Didier Diderot''' (14 September 1685 in Langres – 3 June 1759 ibid)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tourisme-langres.com/fic_bdd/fichiers_fr/Depliant_LVC_Diderot_a_Langres.pdf |title=''Diderot à Langres.'' Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire Langres Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire Langres. |access-date=2012-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817085747/http://tourisme-langres.com/fic_bdd/fichiers_fr/Depliant_LVC_Diderot_a_Langres.pdf |archive-date=2013-08-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a French craftsman and the father of the encyclopedist, author, and philosopher of the Enlightenment Denis Diderot.
== Biography == Didier Diderot descended from families of local craftsmen from the city of Langres, Champagne. His father, Denis Diderot (1654–1726), senior, was a master craftsman, or rather a knife forgemaster, ''maître coutelier'', and his mother was Nicole Beligné (1655–1692). On 20 June 1679 both had married. Nicole Beligné was born on 1655 as the daughter of a wealthy artisan family. Her father was François Beligné (1625–1697)<ref>[http://gw3.geneanet.org/pierfit?lang=en&p=nicole&n=beligne Genealogy of the Beligné´s]</ref> who was also knife blacksmith, her mother was Catherine Grassot. From his father-in-law Beligné Denis Diderot adopted the labeling of their own products: a pearl, ''la perle''. Didier (compare also Desiderius of Langres) had five brothers - Didier was the second son - and one sister; by order of birth year, the Diderot children are as follows: Antoine Thomas (1682–1755); Didier (1685-1769); Claude (1687–1689); François (born 1688); Felix (born 1689); Catherine Diderot (born 1690). [[Image:Didier diderot acte de décès.jpg|thumb|Death deed of Didier Diderot, ''acte de décès''<ref>[http://www.hautemarne-archive.com/hommes/La%20vie%20de%20Denis%20Diderot.pdf ''La vie de Denis Diderot.'']</ref>]] Didier Diderot married on 19 January 1712 in Chassigny Angélique Vigneron (12 October 1677 – 1 October 1748).<ref>Raymond Trousson: '''Diderot.''' Éditions Gallimard (2007) {{ISBN|978-2-07-034170-2}} p. 10</ref><ref>[http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rde_0769-0886_1991_num_11_1_1118 Chouillet, Anne-Marie: ''Trois lettres inédites de Diderot Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie.'' Année (1991) Volume 11 Numéro 11 pp. 8-18; p. 9 footnote]</ref><ref>[http://gw3.geneanet.org/pierfit?lang=en&p=didier&n=diderot) Genealogy of the Diderot´s]</ref> She was the daughter of the tanner, ''tanneur'' François Vigneron (died in 1679) and Jeanne Aramite Humblot (died in 1710) from Langres. Didier Diderot was close to the Jansenism. Later they had three sons and four daughters, one son died shortly after his birth in 1712, followed by Denis (1713–1784) and Didier-Pierre (1722–1787), the canon of Langres, ''Langres chanoine écrivain'' (see also Roman Catholic Diocese of Langres) and the sisters Denise (1715–1797), Catherine (1716–1718), Catherine (born 1719) and Angélique Diderot (born 1720). Angélique Diderot joined the Ursulines. [[File:N° 9 de la place dans le centre ville de Langres.jpg|thumb|''n° 9 de la place dans le centre ville de Langres'' in the background on the right side the birthplace of Denis Diderot]] The family lived around the year 1713 in the center of Langres, ''Place Chambeau'' today the ''n ° 9 de la place dans le center ville de Langres'', a place that now bears the name of Denis Diderot.<ref>[http://img66.xooimage.com/files/7/a/0/036maison-diderot-2--2ea649e.jpg Birthplace of Denis Diderot in Langres with an inscription on the first floor. Today the ground floor with the tobacconist ''Journaux Tabacs le Diderot'']</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120729200651/http://d2ghi3veuw5n4i.cloudfront.net/2fc7d4e8baebaeb6acefb4fc07c61dd0 La Place Diderot in Langres von MonNuage, http://www.monnuage.fr/]</ref><ref>[http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rde_0769-0886_1988_num_4_1_944 Souviron, Marie: ''Diderot, Langres et la religion.'' Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1988 Volume 4 Numéro 4 p. 7-36 online]</ref> [[Image:Langres 121008 2.jpg|thumb|Contemporary view of Langres (Haute-Marne)]]
Didier Diderot was a specialist in the manufacture of medical and surgical cutting instruments, and his lancets were sought after by teaching doctors.<ref>DIDEROT THE TESTING YEARS, 1713-1759, By ARTHUR M. WILSON, NEW YORK OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1957</ref>
== Selected writing ==
* Diderot, Didier; Marcel, Louis: ''Une lettre du père de Diderot à son fils, détenu à Vincennes (3 septembre 1749).'' J. Bière, Bordeaux, (1928)
== Further reading ==
* Gautier, Hubert: ''Le père de Diderot (1685–1759), son testament, sa succession, patrimoine d'un maître coutelier langrois vers le milieu du XVIIIe siècle.'' Moulins, Crépin-Leblond, (1933). * Beligné, Henri: ''Les couteliers de Langres et de Nogent sous la Révolution.'' In ''Bulletin de la société historique et archéologique de Langres.'' n°313, tome XXI, trimestriel IV, (1993) * Bouet, Janine: ''Les couteliers Langrois au XVIII<sup>e</sup>.'' D.E.S, faculté des lettres de Dijon, (1966) * Jean-Jacques Perret: ''L'Art du Coutelier expert en instruments de Chirurgie.'' Seconde Partie de l'Art du Coutelier. Premiere section. Jean Desaint & Charles Saillant, Parigi (1772) * Société historique et archéologique de Langres: ''L'art de la coutellerie au pays de Langres et de Nogent: maîtres couteliers orfèvres et graveurs de Langres et de Nogent.'' Exposition Langres, Société historique et archéologique. Musée du Breuil-de-Saint-Germain, (1966) * Furbank, Philip Nicholas: ''Diderot. A critical biography.'' Secker & Warburg, London (1992) {{ISBN|0-436-16853-7}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rde_0769-0886_1988_num_4_1_944 Souviron, Marie: Diderot, Langres et la religion. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1988 Volume 4 Numéro 4 S. 7-36 online] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130817085747/http://tourisme-langres.com/fic_bdd/fichiers_fr/Depliant_LVC_Diderot_a_Langres.pdf ''Diderot à Langres.'' Villes et Pays d’art et d’histoire Langres Villes et Pays d’art et d’histoire Langres.] * [http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not&idNotice=11469 Pierre BÉLIGNÉ coutelier du Roi à Langres] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131012052358/http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-CS005698.jpg?size=67&uid=1fe4c8b2-7434-4a95-8052-9e456cf82cb0 Portrait of Denise Diderot (1715–1797) Musee du Breuil-de-St.-Germain (France)]
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