Wordsmith: How I Made My DictionaryWriter, physician, philosopher and lexicographer ? mile Littr? was commissioned by Hachette in 1841 to compile 'A New Etymological Dictionary of the French Language'. The work, finally started in 1845, took nearly 30 years to complete, during which period France went through a great deal of turbulence. Littr? wrote this companion volume, a remarkable novella length essay, Comment j'ai fait mon dictionnaire (How I Made My Dictionary), in 1880, which

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