Furetière - Universal Dictionary, Generally Containing All French Words. 1701, Bound.

FURETIÈRE (Antoine) - Universal dictionary, generally containing all French words, both old and modern, and terms of science and art. The Hague and Rotterdam, Arnoud and Reinier Leers, 1701; folio, frontispiece a portrait of the author, approximately 1000 pages per volume, full calf bindings of the time, decorated spines with 6 ribs, marbled edges, title and volume labels in red morocco. The 3 volumes. This edition is a second edition revised and expanded by Basnage de Bauval. Antoine Furetière, born in 1619 in Paris where he died in 1688, is a French man of the Church, poet, fabulist, novelist and lexicographer. The writing of this dictionary brought him into conflict with all his colleagues at the Académie Française. The quarrel arose because of the slowness of the debates at the French Academy and especially the lack of interest of the academics for scientific, technical and artistic terms. The second text that made him famous is the Bourgeois Novel.