Paul Robert

Paul Charles Jules Robert , usually called Paul Robert , born the October 19th 1910 with Orléansville, (Department of Algiers), today Chlef in Algeria, died the August 11th 1980 with Mougins (the Alpes-Maritimes), was a lexicographer and editor French.

Having initially undertaken studies of right (it was accepted lawyer with the bar of Algiers) then of political economy, it was directed in 1945 towards the Lexicographie.

He undertakes the drafting of a alphabetical and analogical Dictionnaire of the French language , published 1953 with 1964 in 8 volumes and 1 supplement, but that the French Academy chooses to take precedence as of the June 15th 1950 (Saintour Price) over simple presentation of a first booklet.

It founded for this purpose its own publisher in 1951 and joins together around him a team of collaborators, among whom Alain Rey, Josette Rey-Debove and Henri Cottez.

Its dictionary is the subject from now on of editions of different formats, all subtitled alphabetical and analogical Dictionnaire of the French language :

  • Large Robert of the French language (1964), in 8 volumes and 1 supplement (1971)
  • the Petit Robert 1 (1967), condensed precedent

In addition, the same team published:

  • the methodical Robert ( methodical Dictionary of current French )
  • the Microphone-Robert ( Dictionary of paramount French ) (1971)
  • the Large Robert of the proper names ( universal Dictionary of the proper names ) (1968 - 1974), in 5 volumes
  • the the Petit Robert 2 ( Dictionary of the proper names ) (1974), condensed precedent. To note an innovation of size in the edition 2005: the appearance of 10.000 etymological references, which seems to be a first in a dictionary of proper names in French language
  • the universal Dictionnaire of painting , in 6 volumes
  • several bilingual dictionaries
  • various dictionaries sets of themes
  • anastatic republication of the universal Dictionnaire… of Antoine Furetière (1690), in 3 volumes

External bonds

  • Official site of the editions the Robert
  • Official site of the Foundation Paul Robert
  • the philosophy of the Robert little story of the Robert dictionaries created in 1945.

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