Samy Ben Messaoud, an associate member of UMR CNRS LIRE, no 5611, specializes in the history of the press. He took part in the Dictionnaire de la presse française pendant la Révolution, 1789-1799, Gilles Feyel dir., Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d'Étude du XVIIIe siècle, 2005, the Dictionnaire de Port-Royal, Antony McKenna and Jean Lesaulnier dir., Paris: Champion, 2004, and the au Dictionnaire des Vies privées (1722-1842), Olivier Ferret, Anne-Marie Mercier-Faivre et Chantal Thomas dir., Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2011.