The French Language in the Seventeenth Century: Contemporary Opinion in FranceThe sixty French texts edited here are all direct commentaries, by contemporary authors, on the French language in the 17th century. By this time, French had begun to assert its independence; in its written and printed form it was being used for a wide variety of literary, technical and administrative purposes. Its practitioners not only successfully challenged the hitherto dominant position of Latin, but also began, for the first time, to discuss and analyse for its own sake the language which was now their preferred medium for expression -- hence, in the first half of the seventeenth century, a growing number of publications on the nature and characteristics of French. The texts demonstrate the sustained critical preoccupationwith the welfare of the French language in the 17th century, and illustrate the various ways in which the writers of the age contributed to its development as an instrument of literary expression and social intercourse. |
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Contents
Enfin Malherbe vint | 5 |
II | 12 |
IV | 27 |
VI | 37 |
Nicolas Andry de Boisregard Suite des reflexions critiques | 38 |
VII | 48 |
Bernard Lamy La Rhetorique ou lart de parler | 92 |
François Eudes de Mézeray Observations sur lorthographe | 127 |
César Vichard de Saint Réal De la critique | 320 |
JeanBaptiste Morvan de Bellegarde Reflexions sur lelegance et la politesse du stile | 325 |
Claude Mallemans de Messanges Réponse à une critique satyrique | 328 |
Jean Godard La Langue françoise | 337 |
Marie de Jars de Gournay LOmbre | 338 |
François de la Mothe le Vayer Considerations sur leloquence françoise de ce tems | 342 |
JeanFrançois le Grand Discours oratoires et dissertations critiques | 345 |
Louis le Laboureur Avantages de la langue françoise | 350 |
Antoine Oudin Grammaire françoise rapportée au langage | 155 |
CésarPierre Richelet Dictionnaire françois contenant les mots | 189 |
leloquence françoise de ce tems | 235 |
manières de sexprimer | 267 |
lusage present de la langue françoise | 274 |
Joseph Leven de Templery Nouvelles Remarques sur la langue françoise | 277 |
Claude Favre de Vaugelas Remarques sur la langue françoise | 283 |
René Bary La Rhetorique françoise | 290 |
Dominique Bouhours Doutes sur la langue françoise | 294 |
Le Sieur du Plaisir Sentimens sur les lettres et sur lhistoire avec des scrupules sur le stile | 301 |
Étienne Dubois LEloquence de la chaire et du barreau selon ses principes | 310 |
Nicolas Andry de Boisregard Réflexions sur lusage present de la langue françoise ou Remarques nouvelles et critiques touchant la politesse | 314 |
Jean Desmarets de SaintSorlin La Comparaison de la langue et de la poësie françoise avec la grecque et la latine | 359 |
Dominique Bouhours Les Entretiens dAriste et dEugene | 364 |
François Charpentier Deffense de la langue françoise | 374 |
François Charpentier De lexcellence de la langue françoise | 379 |
Louis Petit Discours satyriques et moraux ou satires generales | 385 |
PierreFrançois Gillet Plaidoyers et autres oeuvres | 390 |
André Renaud Maniere de parler la langue françoise selon ses diférens styles | 399 |
Notes | 407 |
Bibliography | 509 |
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