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Jean LĂ©vesque de Burigny
Jean LĂ©vesque de Burigny (born 1692, Reims, France - died 1785, Paris) was a historian, who in 1713, with his brothers, Champeaux and LĂ©vesque de Pouilly, he began to compile a dictionary of universal knowledge, similar to an encyclopedia, which comprised twelve large manuscript folios, and afforded Burigny ample material for his subsequent works. In 1718, at The Hague, he worked with Saint-Hyacinthe on L'Europe savante, in twelve volumes, of which he contributed at least one-half.
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