About Philibert-Joseph Le Roux
Lived 1700 – 1790. Philibert-Joseph Le Roux was a French lexicographer.
Philibert-Joseph Le Roux (? – before 1735 Brussels) was an 18th-century French lexicographer.
Le Roux is remembered for his Dictionaire comique, satyrique, critique, burlesque, libre & proverbial published in 1718. Le Roux was forced to leave France in 1693 after he published a pamphlet against François de la Chaise. He fled to Brussels where he died before 1735 while serving Marie-Elisabeth of Austria.
Works Histoire du père La Chaize, jésuite et confesseur du roi Louis XIV où l'on verra les intrigues secrettes qu'il a eues à la cour de France et dans toutes les cours de l'Europe pour l'avancement des grands desseins du roi son maître, Köln 1693; Dictionaire comique, satyrique, critique, burlesque, libre et proverbial, Amsterdam 1718 (540 pages), Lyon 1735 (668 pages), 1739, Amsterdam 1750, Lyon 1752, 2 Bde., Pampelune 1786 (612 + 606 pages, Paris 1793; suspected editor: François Lacombe), Amsterdam 1787. The Nouveau dictionnaire proverbial, satirique et burlesque, plus complet que ceux qui ont paru jusqu'a ce jour, a l'usage de tout le monde by Antoine Caillot (Paris 1826, 1829) was little more than a copy of Le Roux's dictionary. Les annales du monde ou l'histoire universelle sacrée, ecclésiastique & profane, completed by chevalier Lenglet de Percel, Brüssel 1732–1735
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French lexicographer
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Philibert-Joseph Le Roux was born in 1700.
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Philibert-Joseph Le Roux died in 1790 in Brussels.
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Philibert-Joseph Le Roux was a lexicographer.
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Philibert-Joseph Le Roux was French.
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