Works and Collections
His most notable work is the Dictionnaire des antiquités françaises, no less than 40 folio volumes. This work, acquired by M. Moreau, is now in the Bibliothèque nationale, and its dimensions preclude its being published. Some of his other publications include :
- Letter to M. de Bachaumont on good taste in the arts and letters (1751), in-12 ;
- an edition of a fable, les Amours du bon vieux temps, Aucassin et Nicolette (Vaucluse, 1756, in-12);
- Mémoires sur l'ancienne chevalerie, chevalerie considérée comme un établissement politique et militaire.
- a series of Mémoires, inserted into the publication of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (t. VII, X, XIII, XIV, XV, XVII, XX, XXIV).
He also left about a hundred folio volumes of manuscripts, now split between the Bibliothèque nationale and the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, with the latter containing the materials for a Glossaire français, including the self-published Projet (1756, in-4°) and a description of the execution of Georges-Jean Mouchet : only the first volume of this important 10-12 volume work was printed during his lifetime, with the final one published in 1875.
- Letter to M. de Bachaumont on good taste in arts and letters (1751), in-12
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