Bayle Dictionnaire Database. - We encourage users to send us their comments and suggestions and most importantly, to identify egregious typographical or structural errors encountered in the database. Please Contact Us concerning any systematic errors or large pieces of unreadable text which we will then send back to our data-capture contractor for correction. Thank you - The ARTFL Project.

The ARTFL Project is pleased to announce a new, full-text version of Pierre Bayle's monumental Dictionnaire historique et critique (5th Edition, 1740). The entire text of the Dictionnaire is now searchable using the PhiloLogic3 search engine. Due to the great semantic diversity of the document and the subsequent issues with data-capture, the current implementation of the Bayle database should be considered an Alpha version - with significant corrections and structural modifications to be made later (See our Caveats page).

SEARCH Revision 3.1 - Latest Revision of the Bayle Database (8/2008).

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We are aware that many minor typographical errors (e.g. the long "s" rendered as an "f") may have been introduced into the text during the data-capture process, and we are beginning to adress this issue using automatic correction scripts (See our Caveats page). Additionally, unrecognizable characters have been replaced by the "$" character in the text - users are encouraged to consult the available page images in these instances.