Early Encyclopédie volumes print articles associated with Voltaire’s collaboration
From 1751 Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie issued volumes to which Voltaire contributed articles (notably later ‘Histoire’ and others). Police interruptions of the Encyclopédie are the state’s. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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From 1751 Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie issued volumes to which Voltaire contributed articles (notably later ‘Histoire’ and others).
Context
Police interruptions of the Encyclopédie are the state’s.
Voltaire is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
An article is not the whole Encyclopédie.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Voltaire
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.24 · verified
Dated act under Voltaire as author, investor, or campaigner. Printers, kings, and lawyers share labour.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactEarly Encyclopédie volumes print articles associated with Voltaire’s collaboration
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1751 · verified
An article is not the whole Encyclopédie.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — VoltaireStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
- 2.BnF — Devisement du monde manuscript heritageBibliothèque nationale de France · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorVoltaire
- contributed toFactEarly Encyclopédie volumes print articles associated with Voltaire’s collaboration
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Early Encyclopédie volumes print articles associated with Voltaire’s collaboration. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/vo-encyclopedie-articles
https://factrail.ai/facts/vo-encyclopedie-articles
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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