Émile Littré

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Émile Littré (1801-1881) was a French scholar, physician, philologist, and philosopher. He was born in Paris.

Littré translated Hippocrates and belonged to the Positivist school in philosophy. He is mostly known for his "Dictionnaire de la Langue Française". Littré also wrote on medical subjects.

Dictionnaire de la langue française

It took Littré 40 years to write his Dictionnaire de la langue française. It was published in 1863-7.

Online Dictionnaire de la langue française

Littré's dictionary is available online for free. One of the many sites that host it is XMLittré. An XMLittré version of the dictionary is also available for StarDict, although it has some bugs, one of which being wrong redirections such as "palafitte", linking to the definition of "uretière". This bug is not found in the online versions of this dictionary.