Arguably, the history of Diderot's reception amounts to a series of misreadings that stem in large measure from an unavoidable ignorance of many of his major and now familiar texts. Far more complicated than most, the publishing history of this æuvre is one of constant additions, discoveries, and revisions, as it moved slowly and circuitously from one state of completion to another between 1798, when Naigeon published his edition of the æuvres complètes, and 1970, when the first volumes of the Hermann edition appeared. Naigeon's “complete” portrayal was highly partial, an inevitable misapprehension that was not to end soon. The next major edition was published by Brière (1821–23), followed by the Paulin edition of 1830. Only in 1875 would Assézat and Tourneux present the most complete portrayal of Diderot in what for a century would remain the standard edition. Yet even Assézat-Tourneux now appears incomplete, given Herbert Dieckmann's discovery of the Vandeul manuscripts in 1951, the publication of the Commentaire sur Hemsterhuis in 1964, and the ongoing appraisal of Diderot's contribution to Grimm's Correspondance littéraire and to Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes.