Dictionnaire de Trévoux
The Dictionnaire de Trévoux is a French reference book of the 18th century, which was initially published by members of the Jesuit order in the city Trévoux.
The first edition was published in 1704 under the title Dictionnaire universel Trévoux françois et latin with imprimatur of Louis Bourbon.
The two most authoritative publishers, the Jesuits Tournemine and Claude Buffier primarily present in the theology and philosophy concerned articles, the Catholic position against Jansenism dar.
The first issue of 1704 to 1771 was followed by six further editions of continuously increasing extent. After the print location of the first two editions sat down for the work common parlance the name Dictionnaire de Trévoux through, which was maintained after shifting the pressure places by Nancy (1734 ) and Paris ( 1743, 1752 and 1771). An exception is the first Paris edition of 1732, entitled Dictionnaire universel, francois et latin, vulgairement appellé Dictionnaire de Trévoux.
Content values , the editors largely the Dictionnaire universel of Antoine Furetière of which was in 1690 after the death of the author come out with a preface by Pierre Bayle, without mentioning in the first edition of their main source.
The Dictionnaire is regarded as a work that is both still rooted in the traditional ideas of the philosophy, theology and social theory, on the other hand takes up already modern ideas of the Enlightenment in wide ranges. History of science, he is a first-rate source for the lexicography of the Enlightenment and for the etymology of the French Language.
Sources and re-use
In addition to the " Furetière " the authors draw virtually the full range of contemporary reference works, so the Thrésor de la langue francoyse of Jean Nicot (1530-1604), the glossary by Charles du Fresne (1610-1688), the specialized dictionaries of Pierre César Richelet (1626-1698), the etymological dictionaries of Gilles Ménage (1613-1692) and Cesar de Rochefort (1630-1691), the travel reports Rochefort, and encyclopaedias like Thomas Corneille's dictionary of technical Terms ( 1694 ) and his three-volume Dictionnaire universel geographique et historique of 1708.
Some parts of the Dictionnaire de Trévoux were also received in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d' Alembert.