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When to use definite article after “de”?

There won’t be a definite article behind DE ever when it defines the quantity of something.

Here, DE is specifying what these quantities are about.
DE can therefore be translated as of something.

But, DE must be followed by a definite article when it precedes a word alone. For instance:

De la tranquilité
De l’eau
De l’herbe
Du travail (Why putting du here? you may ask. Well, the very thing to know is that DU is the combination of DE + LE. As travail is masculine, you won’t say de le travail, you say du)