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Denis Diderot
Portrait of Denis Diderot, oil on canvas by Dimitry Levitzky, 18th century.
Denis Diderot, the influential French philosopher and chief editor of the Encyclopédie, died on July 31, 1784.1
He passed away from coronary thrombosis in Paris, specifically in a house on the rue de Richelieu that had been provided to him by his patron, Catherine the Great. Following his death, he was buried in consecrated ground at Saint-Roch.23