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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
Length:
2,624 words

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

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 ...

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