(1887-1975), and daughter Marguerite Bénézit. After the elder Bénézit's death the editors were (1895-1994) and the painter (1922-2004), the younger Bénézit having already left Paris and moved to Provence. The next edition was an eight-volume set published between 1948 and 1955, followed by a ten-volume set in 1976 and a 14-volume set in 1999. In 2006, an English-language edition was published for the first time. A 14-volume set, it has more than 20,000 pages, with over 170,000 entries.

As of 2024, the editor-in-chief is Valerie Cassel Oliver