French
Encyclopedias written in French.
- Encyclopédie (1751–1772)
- Encyclopédie Méthodique (Panckoucke) 1782–1832
- Encyclopédie nouvelle (Pierre Leroux and Jean Reynaud) 1839–1840
- Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle by Pierre Larousse (17 volumes 1866–1877) —really an encyclopedia despite its name
- La Grande Encyclopédie, general secretaries of the editorial board: Camille Dreyfus and André Berthelot (31 volumes 1886–1902)
- Nouveau Larousse illustré (1897–1904)
- Grand Larousse encyclopédique (1960–1964)
- Encyclopædia Universalis (1968–....)
- Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Larousse
- Claude Augé Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustré
- Encyclopædia Britannica translated into French
- French Wikipedia (Wikipédia francophone)
Dictionnaires généraux, universels, encyclopédiques, et autres… A bibliography of French encyclopedias up to Larousse.
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