The third edition (1552) of Robert Estienne's Dictionarium latinogallicum marks the culmination of hiswork on the Latin-French dictionary. Estienne, the father of modern Classical Latin and French lexicography (cf. Starnes 1954), had established for Classical Latin and 16th-century French a tripartite series of dictionaries: for Latin a monolingual Thesaurus intended for scholars, and two Latin-French dictionaries, one, the Dictionarium latinogallicum, for advanced students, and an abridged version, the Dictionariolum puerorum latinogallicum, for beginners. 

-- Jean Nicot,  Threysor de la langue françoyse, tant ancienne que moderne (Paris, David Douceur, 1606)(unrestricted.)

Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue françoyse is the key to the development of French lexicography. The sum of four editions of Robert Estienne's bilingual Dictionaire françois-latin, the Threysor assumed, through the contributions of Nicot, the nature of a monolingual French dictionary.
 

  Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique stands as the supreme achievement of one of the seventeenth century's most prominent men of letters. Originally conceived as a response to the errors in Louis Moréri's Grand dictionnaire historique, his Dictionnaire grew to be an exemplary work of critical methodology. Called the "Arsenal of the Enlightenment", it was pillaged and re-edited throughout the 18th century by believers and sceptics alike. The ARTFL Project offers here a facsimile version of the 1740 edition.

The Académie française was founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635 with the primary goal of creating a French dictionary. A total of eight editions have been published in the years since its foundation, from the first edition in 1694 up until the eighth edition in 1935. The ninth edition is currently in progress. The ARTFL Project, in collaboration with the Projet d'informatisation du Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, is pleased to offer electronic versions of the first (1694), 5th (1798), and 6th (1835) editions.