This volume leads the reader through the lexicographical landscape of France from its origins in the twelfth century to modern times. It introduces the main landmarks on the way, including Ferrière’s and Guyot’s Repertoire universel et raisonne de jurisprudence. These ambitious works blurred the distinction between dictionary and encyclopedia and paved the way for the works that followed. The nineteenth century was the golden age for French legal lexicography, and works by Langlande and Meynial provided the first real syntheses of the Law in its entirety. This lexicographical journey also brings with it some surprising travel companions including the arrêtistes (case-reporters) of the eighteenth century and the compilers of some of the annotated codes in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century finally, the encyclopedic tendencies are shed in favor of more utilitarian specialist works.