Philibert-Joseph Le Roux (? – before 1735 Brussels) was an 18th-century French
lexicographer
Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries.
* Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
* Theoretica ...
.
Le Roux is remembered for hi
''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
François de la Chaise (August 25, 1624 – January 20, 1709) was a French Jesuit priest, the father confessor of King Louis XIV of France.
Biography
François de la Chaise was born at the Château of Aix in Aix-la-Fayette, Puy-de-Dôme, Auverg ...
. He fled to Brussels where he died before 1735 while serving Marie-Elisabeth of Austria.
[Monica Barsi, « Le « Dictionnaire burlesque » de Richelet et sa continuation per Philibert Joseph Le Roux », ''Lingua, cultura e testo : miscellanea di studi francesi in onore di Sergio Cigada'', Milan, Vita e Pensiero, 2003, 762 p., (), (p. 63–79).]
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
François Lacombe (born February 2, 1948) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman, who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) and World Hockey Association (WHA) between 1968 and 1980. He spent parts of three seasons in the NHL ...
), Amsterdam 1787. Th
''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
Bibliography
*Franz Josef Hausmann, 120. ''Das Wörterbuch der Sprechsprache, des Argot und des Slang'', in: ''Wörterbücher. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Lexikographie. Zweiter Teilband'', hrsg. von Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand und Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1990, (p. 1184–1190)
*Laurent Bray, ''Essai de filiation d’un dictionnaire de français non conventionnel du 18e siècle: Le Roux (1718, 1735)'', in: Grammaire ''des fautes et français non conventionnels'', Paris 1992, (p. 185–196)
Notes and references
{{DEFAULTSORT:Le Roux, Philibert-Joseph
French lexicographers