The French Language in the Seventeenth Century: Contemporary Opinion in France

by Peter Rickard

The 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859913538
• ISBN13: 9780859913539
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.3" x 6.3"