The ''Dictionnaire de Trévoux'' (), also titled ''Dictionnaire universel françois et latin'', is a French dictionary that appeared in several editions from 1704 to 1771. It was unofficially and then officially nicknamed ''Dictionnaire de Trévoux'' because of its original publication in the town of

Trévoux Trévoux (; ) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. The inhabitants are known as Trévoltiens. It is a popular destination outside of Lyon, built on the steeply sloping left bank of the river Saône and is known for its for ...

(near

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, France) Throughout the 18th century, it was widely assumed to be directed by the

Jesuits The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...

, a supposition supported by at least some modern scholars. The first edition (1704) of the ''Dictionnaire de Trévoux'' was close to being a reprint of the 1701 edition of

Antoine Furetière Antoine Furetière (28 December 161914 May 1688) was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer, known best for his satirical novel ''Scarron's City Romance'', and also his famous Dictionnaire universel . He was expelled from the Académie F ...

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Dictionnaire universel The ''Dictionnaire universel, contenant generalement tous les mots françois'' (originally ''Dictionaire universel'') was a dictionary and encyclopedia compiled by Antoine Furetière and published posthumously in 1690. Unlike the rival dictionary o ...

'' (1690), with a small number of revisions and added articles as well as a Latin-French dictionary in the last volume. A few decades later, the ''Dictionnaire de Trévoux'' was pirated in its own turn: the publisher Pierre Antoine, from Nancy, brought out two editions in competition with the original series before agreeing to cooperate on the 1752 edition. From its much expanded second edition (1721) onward, the ''Dictionnaire de Trévoux'' came to be respected and widely used, becoming an important source for Ephraim Chambers' '' Cyclopaedia'' (1728) and the ''

Encyclopédie , better known as ''Encyclopédie'' (), was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. It had many writers, known as the Encyclopédistes. It was edited by Denis ...

'' (1751–72). Following is a list of editions of the ''Dictionnaire de Trévoux'' with their dates, place of publication, size, and format:Isabelle Turcan, "La Série des éditions du ''Dictionnaire de Trévoux''," in ''Quand le Dictionnaire de Trévoux rayonne sur l'Europe des Lumières'', ed. Turcan and Louis André (Paris: Harmattan, 2009), 139. * 1704, Trévoux, 2-3 volumes in folio, variations by printing and binding are not distinguished on title pages; ** One version printed and bound in three volumes as: A-D, E-N, and M-Z. ** Another version printed and bound in three volumes as: A-F, G-R, and S-Z. * 1721, Trévoux, 5 volumes in folio; * 1732, Paris, 5 volumes in folio; * 1734, Nancy, 5 volumes in folio; * 1738-42, Nancy, 6 volumes in folio; * 1743, Paris, 6 volumes in folio; * 1752, Paris or Nancy, 8-9 volumes in folio, including a one-or-two-volume supplement; * 1762, Paris, 2-3 volumes in quarto (an abridged edition); and * 1771, Paris, 8 volumes in folio.

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