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With Barbey d’Aurevilly’s critical essay on Diderot, we are treated to even more than the commentary of a talented author on the works of a more famous predecessor. In the wider picture, Contre Diderot [Against Diderot] is a heated battle between philosophies, aesthetics, conflicting conceptions on authorship, literature, even systems of thoughts. In this essay, without knowing it yet, two centuries clash.