Table of Contents

A Note on Usage and Dates
Introduction

Part One - The Académie Française and its Dictionary under the Old Regime
Chapter 1. The Founding of the Académie Française and its Development through the Late Seventeenth Century
Chapter 2. The Académie and its Dictionaries under the Old Regime

Part Two - The Académie Française during the French Revolution
Chapter 3. The Académie and its Dictionary from the Beginning of the Revolution until the End of the Monarchy
Chapter 4. An Orphaned Dictionary in Republican France
Chapter 5. The Appearance of the Fifth Edition

Part Three - Who Controls Language?
Chapter 6. The Unexpected Appearance of a New Dictionary
Chapter 7. The Fifth Edition Superseded

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography

About the Author

Michael P. Fitzsimmons is Professor of History at Auburn University Montgomery. His previous works include From Artisan to Worker: Guilds, the French State, and the Organization of Labor (2010) and The Night the Old Regime Ended: August 4, 1789, and the French Revolution (2003).

Reviews

"Fitzsimmons delves deeply into the many intersections of politics and language in this absorbing study." -- Peter Sokolowski, Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America