La naissance du mot « littérature » dans les dictionnaires français

The French word "literature" is not self-evident when it is examined historically. One has only to trace its occurence across our patrimonial lexicography to understand this. When one compares "literature" and "let(t)reüre" is texts written prior to the seventeenth century, and then tackles the Dictionaries by Godefroy and Huguet, one begins to understand that the word "literature" was actually associated with a series of concepts which change and/or disappear with each passing century.