SUMMARY

The portable Dictionary by Vosgien (Jean-Baptiste Ladvocat aka Vosgien, a teacher at the Sorbonne) was a best-seller and was printed and translated from 1747 to 1858. To record the discoveries and changes in the world (which meant more places to describe), while keeping the work the same size, required a selection of the entries and increasingly shorter texts. The question is thus: what was added and what disappeared? A comparison of all the entries about Africa in all seven editions shows that nearly identical texts were retained, often taken from old travelers' accounts that sometimes were one hundred years old. Early in the 19th century, all this picturesque ...

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