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502 - FURETIÈRE, Antoine - Second Factum pour Mre Antoine Furetier…
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FURETIÈRE, Antoine - Second Factum pour Mre Antoine Furetiere Abbé de Chalivoy, appellant tant comme de Juges incompetans qu'autrement, d'une pretenduë Sentence rendueë au Bureau de l'Academie Françoise, le ( ) janvier 1685. Against Seraphin Regnier Desmarets Secrétaire perpetuel de l'Académie Françoise (starting title). S. l. n. d.. In-4, 79 pp. with large intaglio cul-de-lampe depicting an emblem held by two cherubs with this motto: ''É duro, perch', é vero.'' (p. 60), full tan morocco, ribbed spine, int. dent, gilt tr. (RAPARLIER). Not in Tchémerzine. The second factum was composed between October and December 1685 and went through at least three editions in Holland in 1686. This copy contains a few handwritten corrections to errors that do not appear in known editions. For example (p. 31) ''un service qu'il auroit esté obligé de faire, si quelque confrère'' becomes: ''un service qu'il auroit esté obligé de faire dire, si quelque confrère''; (p. 53): ''On peut juger de la beauté des autres confrères'' becomes: ''On peut juger de la beauté des autres conférences''; (p.. 57) ''C'est à quoy semblent travailler ces Messieurs de l'Académie, qui bien loin d'enrichir la langue, l'appauvrissement sous pretexte de l'épurer'' becomes: ''C'est à quoy semblent travailler ces Messieurs de l'Académie, qui bien loin d'enrichir la langue, l'appauvrissent sous pretexte de l'épurer. Is this the original edition? The factum is of great documentary interest because it gives us an insight into how the sessions of the Académie française were conducted. Most of the attacks are aimed at academics such as Tallemant, Claude Boyer, Michel Le Clerc, Quinault, Barbier-Daucour and Lavau. In the second part, entitled "Proof", Furetière uses a number of definitions from the Académie's dictionary as examples. He wanted to prove that the dictionary consisted solely of common and proverbial phrases copied from Oudin, Nicot, Monet and Richelet. (Bound in French:) Placet des Muses au Roy. S. l. n. d. 8 pp. Different printing from that described by Tchémerzine (III, 409).
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