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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This article considers the metaphor of the sanctuary in <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">D</jats:styled-content>iderot and d’<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">A</jats:styled-content>lembert's <jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">E</jats:styled-content>ncyclopédie</jats:italic> and proposes two readings. One shows how the <jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">E</jats:styled-content>ncyclopédie</jats:italic> is concerned with issues of censorship and wishes to provide a safe refuge for heterodox knowledge. The second reading considers the metaphor of the sanctuary with regard to the accessibility of the <jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">E</jats:styled-content>ncyclopédie</jats:italic>. The essay demonstrates how the <jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">E</jats:styled-content>ncyclopédie</jats:italic> wavers between proclamations of the work's relative inaccessibility and aspirations to make knowledge available for all. Ultimately, the metaphor of the sanctuary lays bare some of the fundamental tensions in the <jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">E</jats:styled-content>ncyclopédie</jats:italic> project and in the Enlightenment more generally.</jats:p>