Dictionnaire de Trévoux
The Dictionnaire de Trévoux is a French reference work of the 18th century, which was initially published by members of the Jesuit order in the city of Trévoux .
The first edition was published in Trévoux in 1704 under the title Dictionnaire universel françois et latin with permission from Louis Bourbon .
The two authoritative editors, the Jesuit Tournemine and Claude Buffier, represent the Catholic position towards Jansenism , especially in the articles relating to theology and philosophy .
The first edition from 1704 was followed by six further editions of continuously growing size by 1771. After the printing location of the first two editions, the name Dictionnaire de Trévoux prevailed for the work , which was retained after the printing locations were relocated to Nancy (1734) and Paris (1743, 1752 and 1771). The first Paris edition of 1732 with the title Dictionnaire universel, francois et latin, vulgairement appellé Dictionnaire de Trévoux is an exception .
In terms of content, the editors largely evaluate the Dictionnaire universel by Antoine Furetière , which came out in 1690 after the author's death with a foreword by Pierre Bayle , without naming its main source in the first edition.
The Dictionnaire is regarded as a work that on the one hand is still anchored in the traditional world of ideas of philosophy, theology and social theory, on the other hand it already takes up modern ideas of the Enlightenment in many areas . In terms of the history of science, it is a primary source for the lexicography of the Enlightenment and for the etymology of the French language.
Sources and further use
In addition to the “Furetière”, the authors use practically the full range of contemporary reference works, such as the Thrésor de la langue francoyse by Jean Nicot (1530–1604), the glossary by Charles du Fresne (1610–1688), the specialist dictionaries by César-Pierre Richelet (1626–1698), the etymological dictionaries of Gilles Ménage (1613–1692) and César de Rochefort (1630–1691), the travel reports of Rochefort, as well as specialist encyclopedias such as Thomas Corneille's specialist dictionary for technical terms (1694) and his three-volume Dictionnaire universel geographique et historique from 1708.
Some parts of the Dictionnaire de Trévoux were also included in the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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- ↑ Timothy Allen, Charles Cooney, Stéphane Douard, Russell Horton, Robert Morrissey, Mark Olsen, Glenn Roe, Robert Voyer: Plundering Philosophers: Identifying Sources of the Encyclopédie. In: Journal of the Association for History and Computing . Volume 13, No. 1, 2010.
literature
- Christian Albertan: Les journalistes de Trévoux lecteurs de l'Encyclopédie in: Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'encyclopédie, October 13, 1992.
- Isabelle Turcan, Louis André: Quand le dictionnaire de Trévoux rayonne sur l'Europe des lumières. 2009. ISBN 978-2-296-09250-1
- Dorothea Behnke: Furetière and Trévoux. An investigation into the relationship between the two dictionary series . 1996. ISBN 978-3-484-30972-2
