Maurice La Chatre

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Maurice La Chatre

Maurice La Châtre (born October 14, 1814 in Issoudun , † March 9, 1900 in Paris ) was a French publicist, publisher, Romanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Maurice de La Châtre, whose father had been ennobled under Napoleon, broke out of the military career intended for him at a young age and led an existence as an enlightening and anti-clerical intellectual, publicist and publisher who spent part of his life in prison or in exile. In particular, his extensive dictionaries and lexicons were, far from the objectivity cultivated today in lexicographical texts, peppered with polemics from a socialist point of view.

Lachâtre was the publisher of the Mystères de Paris by Eugène Sue and, in 1872, the first French edition of Karl Marx , Das Kapital (published in deliveries).

In La Courneuve and Drancy streets are named after him.

Works

lexicography

  • Le dictionnaire universel. Panthéon littéraire et encyclopédie illustrée , 2 vols., Paris 1854–1856
  • Dictionnaire français illustré , 2 vols., Paris 1856–1857
  • Nouveau dictionnaire universel. Panthéon littéraire et encyclopédie illustrée , 2 vols., Paris 1865–1870 (4 vols., Paris 1972), 1880, 1894
  • Le dictionnaire des écoles , Paris 1865
  • Nouvelle encyclopédie nationale , Paris 1870
  • Dictionary journal. Compléments du "Dictionnaire universel" et des grands lexiques français , Paris 1895
  • Dictionnaire La Châtre. Nouvelle encyclopédie universelle illustrée , Paris 1898–1907

Other works (selection)

  • Histoire des papes. Crimes, meurtres, empoisonnements, parricides, adultères, incestes, débauches et turpitudes des pontifes romains, depuis Saint-Pierre jusqu'à nos jours. Crimes des rois, des reines et des empereurs , 2 vols., Paris 1842–1857, 10 vols., 1865; ud T. Histoire des papes. Mystères d'iniquités de la cour de Rome , 3 vol., 1870 (Portuguese 1893–1896)
  • Cinq centimes par jour. Méthodes commerciales d'un éditeur engagé , ed. by François Gaudin and Jean-Yves Mollier, Mont-Saint-Aignan 2008
  • Philosophy nouvelle. Le spiritisme , ed. by François Gaudin, Mont-Saint-Aignan 2012

literature

  • Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français , ed. by Jean Maitron, Vol. 2, 1965, pp. 404-405
  • Dictionnaire de biographie française 18, column 1501
  • Margarete Lindemann, Les dictionnaires de Maurice La Châtre, in: Travaux de Linguistique et de Philologie 26.1, 1988, pp. 141–158
  • Le Monde perdu de Maurice Lachâtre (1814–1900), ed. by François Gaudin, Paris 2006

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personal data
SURNAME La Chatre, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lachâtre, Maurice; Châtre, Maurice de la
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French publisher, Romanist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Issoudun
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1900
Place of death Paris