Encyclopédie française

The Encyclopédie française (begun 1935) was an outstanding collection of monographs by well-known scholars and specialists, arranged in classified form and available in loose-leaf binders, supplemented by a continuously revised index. Its 21 volumes, each under the direction of a different authority, dealt with (1) human…

…the same subject in the Encyclopédie française, Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (1961), and the 15th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. The Encyclopédie française will provide one or more well-written treatises on the subject by writers of note. This is exactly what the encyclopaedias of the earliest period offered; and…

…the publication of the 21-volume Encyclopédie française (1935–66), a major government-sponsored enterprise aimed at rivaling the German, Italian, and Soviet encyclopaedias. Under the Nazi occupation during World War II, Febvre stayed at his teaching post in Paris, edited the Annales alone, and occasionally retreated to his beloved country house in…