| Title: | Clergies |
| Original Title: | Clergés |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 3 (1753), p. 528 |
| Author: | Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis (biography) |
| Translator: | Richard W. J. Michaelis [Hertford College, Oxford] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Boucher d'Argis, Antoine-Gaspard. "Clergies." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Richard W. J. Michaelis. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2003. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.046>. Trans. of "Clergés," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 3. Paris, 1753. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Boucher d'Argis, Antoine-Gaspard. "Clergies." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Richard W. J. Michaelis. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.046 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Clergés," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 3:528 (Paris, 1753). |
Clergies, in certain ancient edicts signifies people of the law, as in art 1 of the edict of Charles V of the year 1356. They were called thus because they were literate people, because in ancient times clerks or ecclesiastics were almost alone in having any knowledge of letters, all men of letters were called clerks, and of science were called clergie. (A)