The "Encyclopédie" played an important role in the intellectual foment leading to the French Revolution. "No encyclopaedia perhaps has been of such political importance, or has occupied so conspicuous a place in the civil and literary history of its century. It sought not only to give information, but to guide opinion," wrote the 1911 "Encyclopædia Britannica". In "The Encyclopédie and the Age of Revolution", a work published in conjunction with a 1989 exhibition of the "Encyclopédie" at the University of California, Los Angeles, Clorinda Donato writes the following: