JTE v6n1 Diderot, the Mechanical Arts, and the
Denis Diderot as Editor and the Publishing Venture Diderot had grown up around craftsmen and their work because his father was a master cutler, but he did not pursue his father''s trade. Diderot acquired a classical education at a school in Langres until he was 15 years old and then high school in Paris for three years ( Crocker, 1966 ).