Philibert-Joseph Le Roux
Philibert-Joseph Le Roux was an 18th-century French lexicographer.
Le Roux is remembered for his published in 1718. Le Roux was forced to leave France in 1693 after he published a pamphlet against François de la Chaise. He fled to Brussels where he died before 1735 while serving Marie-Elisabeth of Austria.Works
- pour l'avancement des grands desseins du roi son maître, Köln 1693;
- Dictionaire comique, satyrique, critique, burlesque, libre et proverbial, Amsterdam 1718, Lyon 1735, 1739, Amsterdam 1750, Lyon 1752, 2 Bde., Pampelune 1786, Amsterdam 1787. The by Antoine Caillot was little more than a copy of Le Roux's dictionary.
- Les annales du monde ou l'histoire universelle sacrée, ecclésiastique & profane, completed by chevalier Lenglet de Percel, Brüssel 1732–1735
