Antoine Furetière, French scholar, lexicographer, and author (born 1619)

Antoine Furetière

French writer and scholar (1619–1688)

Antoine Furetière was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer, known best for his satirical novel Scarron's City Romance, and also his famous Dictionnaire universel. He was expelled from the Académie Française for seeking to publish his own French language dictionary.