Le dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise
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Title
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Le dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise
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Description
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The widow Coignard, Anne-Geneviève Hénault, oversaw one of the most significant works on the French language: the first edition of the dictionary of the French Academy. She completed the publication after the death of her husband, Jean-Baptiste Coignard I. In 1694, the year in which the dictionary was published, the widow’s business comprised 5 working presses and 8 compagnons, or journeymen. Bound in the same matching set is another dictionary published by Hénault: the Dictionnaire des Arts et des Sciences of Thomas Corneille, himself a member of the Academy. The binding bears the armorial stamp of the La Rochefoucauld family.
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Contributor
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Anne-Geneviève Hénault
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Creator
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ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE
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Date
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1694
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Identifier
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E693-4
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Publisher
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Paris: chez la veuve de Jean-Baptiste
Coignard
