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FURETILRE, ANTOINE (1619-1688)

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FURETILRE, See also:ANTOINE (1619-1688) , See also:French See also:scholar and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 28th of See also:December 1619. He first studied See also:law, and practised for a See also:time as an See also:advocate, but eventually took orders and after various preferments became See also:abbe of Chalivoy in the See also:diocese of See also:Bourges in 1662. In his leisure moments he devoted himself to letters, and in virtue of his satires—Nouvelle Allegorique, ou histoire See also:des derniers troubles arrives au royaume d'eloquence (1658); Voyage de Mercure (1653)—he was admitted a member of the French See also:Academy in 1662. That learned See also:body had See also:long promised a See also:complete See also:dictionary of the French See also:tongue; and when they heard that Furetiere was on the point of issuing a See also:work of a similar nature, they interfered, alleging that he had purloined from their stores, and that they possessed the exclusive See also:privilege of See also:publishing such a See also:book. After much See also:bitter recrimination on both sides the offender was expelled in 1685; but for this See also:act of injustice he took a severe revenge in his See also:satire, Couches de l'academie (See also:Amsterdam, 1687). His Dictionnaire universel was posthumously published in 1690 (See also:Rotterdam, 2 vols.). It was afterwards revised and improved by the See also:Protestant jurist, See also:Henri See also:Basnage de Beauval (1656-1710), who published his edition (3 vols.) in 17o1; and it was only superseded by the compilation known as the Dictionnaire de Trevoux (Paris, 3 vols., 1704; 7th ed., 8 vols., 1771), which was in fact little more than a reimpression of Basnage's edition. Furetiere is perhaps even better known as the author of Le See also:Roman See also:bourgeois (1666). It See also:cast ridicule on the fashionable romances of Mlle de See also:Scudery and of La Calprenede, and is of See also:interest as descriptive of theeveryday See also:life of his times. There is no See also:element of See also:burlesque, as in See also:Scarron's Roman comique, but the author contents himself with stringing together a number of episodes ,and portraits, obviously See also:drawn from life, without much See also:attempt at sequence. The book was edited in 18J4 by See also:Edward See also:Fournier and See also:Charles Asselineau and by P. Jannet.

The Fureteriana, which appeared in Paris eight years after Furetiere's See also:

death, which took See also:place on the 14th of May 1688, is a collection of but little value.

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