Title pages and extracts from French dictionaries printed in the first half of the eighteenth century

Abstract

The following dictionaries are included:

• Antoine Furetière’s Dictionnaire universel edited by Henri Basnage de Beauval’s (1701), title page and pages with description of the Aurore, taken from the Gallica database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
• Antoine Furetière’s Dictionnaire universel edited by Jean-Baptiste Brutel de la Rivière (1727), title page and page with description of the Aurore, taken from the Gallica database.
• The “Dictionnaire de Trévoux” edited by a group of Jesuits (editions from 1704, 1721, 1732, 1743), title pages and descriptions of the Aurore, taken from the Gallica database.
• The Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise (third edition, 1740), title page and description of the Aurore Boréale, taken from the Gallica database.

For an explanation of the context, see the introductory essay by Muriel Brot and Per Pippin Aspaas.