Le Bon Usage

By Maurice Grevisse

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2801105880
• ISBN13: 9782801105887
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Schoenhofs Foreign Books
• Length: 1768 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Daunting but comprehensive

Being a fairly advanced French speaker who hopes to continue his studies of the language throughout college, I bought this volume as a means of ensuring that I understood the tougher grammatical aspects of French. Needless to say, at 1760 pages, Le Bon Usage is daunting; however, with such monstrous size comes an absolute thoroughness on the subject which is, at present, unmatched. I must confess that rarely do I ever open up this book due to the availability of information on the Internet -- available within seconds -- though it obviously helps to produce some sort of finality on any topic.

Picky! Picky!

This is the Bible of the picky stuff for French. This is an older edition, but it is still invaluable for the serious student of the language. It has exhaustive analysis of grammar to the point of polemic, but it really is the final word on many topics. I'd recommend the newest edition you can get, if you can stomach the price tag, since language does continue to evolve.

Bible of the French language

This is the end-all and be-all of French grammar. It is expensive, but you will use if for the rest of your life (or as long as you keep up your interest in French). Indispensable for anyone who teaches French - even bizarre grammar questions arise in conversational classes, and this is the one book that will give you the complete answer where other grammars simply leave much to be desired. This reference is not really suitable for beginning students, and might be challenging for intermediate students. But if you are an intermediate student, you owe it to yourself to at least look through it. Even if you can only afford an older edition, I highly recommend it.

LE BON USAGE - Maurice Grevisse

This book is a wonderful tool not only for learners of French but for professionals too. It is easy to use, for the order and presentation of each of the articles is very clear, and it gives a great amount of information on usage and style. Le Bon Usage helps the learners discover new features of the language and it offers the professionals (such as Translators or Teachers) very useful tips as to the usage of words, expressions, and verbs that are specific to the French language, making its contents clear through a great variety of examples. Just like in his other books, M. Grevisse does a thorough and excellent research of the French language to offer us readers one of the best works on usage of French ever written.