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CALLIÈRES, François de] - Du Bon et du Mauvais Usage dans le…
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481
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CALLIÈRES, François de] - Du Bon et du Mauvais Usage dans le…
See original version (French)
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CALLIÈRES, François de] - Du Bon et du Mauvais Usage dans les manières de s'exprimer. Bourgeois ways of speaking. Et en quoy elles sont differentes de celles de la Cour. Suite des Mots à la mode. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1693. In-12, (1) f., 241 (1) pp. in contemporary granulated brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated.
CONLON II, n°6124. first edition. Callières was elected to the Académie française in 1689. His grammatical treatises are of great importance for the study of language at the end of the seventeenth century. Callières identifies a large number of expressions that were introduced at court in the late seventeenth century and that the author considers to be vicious; several of them are still in common use today.
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