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Also Known As Paul-Charles-Jules Robert
Born October 19, 1910 • Ech-Cheliff • Algeria
Died August 11, 1980 (aged 69) • France
Noah Webster
Noah Webster
American lexicographer
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William Salesbury
Welsh lexicographer
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Ambrogio Calepino
Italian lexicographer
Frédéric Mistral, etching, 1864
Frédéric Mistral
French poet
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Alexandre de Rhodes
French missionary
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Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange
French scholar
Furetière, engraving by G. Edelinck, 1689, after a portrait by Seue
Antoine Furetière
French author
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Paul-Émile Littré
French lexicographer
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Monique Wittig
French writer
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Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye
French medievalist and lexicographer
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Pierre Larousse
French encyclopaedist
Amiot, Jean-Joseph-Marie
Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot
Jesuit missionary
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Arsène Darmesteter
French scholar
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Louis-Christophe-François Hachette
French publisher
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Francis Horace Vizetelly
American-British writer
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
American author
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Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
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Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
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John Ciardi
American poet and critic