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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
In eighteenth-century Europe, the dictionary became a genre of considerable importance in society, culture, and commerce. It was admired for
Jacques-Georges de Chauffepié
(1702–1786), pastor, Christian apologist, and author of a biographical dictionary, intended to supplement Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique. Jacques-Georges de Chauffepié (or Chaufepié) was ...