Jean-Baptiste Boissière, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean-Baptiste Boissière

French lexicographer

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1806

Place of Birth: Valognes, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1885

Profession: romanist, philosopher, linguist, lexicographer, grammarian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Jean-Baptiste-Prudence Boissière (1806–1885) was a French lexicographer born in Valognes, Manche, France.
He was the editor of the Dictionnaire analogique de la langue française (Analogical dictionary of French), published by Larousse in 1862.
It was, in effect, the first thesaurus of the French language.