Essais d'un dictionnaire universel by Antoine Furetière

"Essais d'un dictionnaire universel" by Antoine Furetière is a dictionary published in 1684 as a preview of his comprehensive French language dictionary. This work sparked a bitter conflict with the Académie française, which held a monopoly on general dictionaries. Furetière's dictionary included specialized terminology and peripheral vocabulary, challenging academic authority. The controversy led to his expulsion from the Académie in 1685 and the revocation of his publishing privilege. The complete dictionary appeared posthumously in 1690, igniting religious and scholarly debates across Europe for decades. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Furetière, Antoine, 1619-1688
LoC No. 31020231
Title Essais d'un dictionnaire universel
contenant généralement tous les mots François tant vieux que modernes, & les termes de toutes les Sciences & des Arts
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_universel Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_universel
Credits Produced by Clarity, Mireille Harmelin, Keith J. Adams,
Hans Pieterse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 73.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PC: Language and Literatures: Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject French language -- Dictionaries
Category Text
eBook-No. 47459
Release Date
Last Update Oct 24, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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