Du traité au dictionnaire : de l’art de condenser les savoirs Cas des œuvres d’exégèse et d’histoire de dom Calmet

The Lorraine Benedictine monk Augustin Calmet was praised by eighteenth-century European scholars for his works, and more particularly for his Commentaire littéral sur tous les Livres de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Testament and his Histoire de Lorraine, whose publication was each followed by a companion dictionary: the Dictionnaire de la Bible and the Notice de la Lorraine. The study of these transpositions from treatise to dictionary sheds light on their literary, political and religious issues.