Paul Rouaix

Paul Rouaix (* 1850 ; † after 1941) was a French art critic, romance scholar and lexicographer .

Life

Rouaix was a novelist, art critic, grammarian and lexicographer. He modernized the dictionary type “dictionnaire analogique” (from the idea to the word), developed by Prudence Boissière as the successor to Peter Mark Roget , a term dictionary of its own, so that it has been on the market under various titles from 1898 to the present day could and was widely imitated (not only in France, but also in Spain and the United States).

Works

novel

• L'agent XIII, 126 , Paris 1889

Art criticism

• Dictionnaire des arts décoratifs à l'usage des artisans, des artistes, des amateurs et des écoles , 2 vols., Paris 1885, 1900, 1925
• Histoire des beaux-arts en trente chapitres , Paris 1901, 1911

Romance Studies

• Dictionnaire-manuel-illustré des idées suggérées par les mots contenant tous les mots de la langue française groupés d'après le sens , Paris 1898; 31st edition 1971, 2004; other title: Trouver le mot juste. Dictionnaire des idées suggérées par les mots , 1897 (most recently 2009)
• Grammaire élémentaire. Théorie et exercices , Toulouse 1911, (until 1934)
• Grammaire preparatory. Théorie et exercices , Toulouse 1912, (until 1941)

literature

• Franz Josef Hausmann, 106. Le dictionnaire analogique, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1990, pp. 1094-1099

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Rouaix in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)