Le Nouveau Dictionniare Francois, de Pierre Richelet, Contenant Generalement Tous Les Mots Anciens et Moderns

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Cesar-Pierre Richelet (1626 - 1698) was a French grammarian and lexicographer, the compiler of this first dictionary of the French language. Richelet provided his users with many u sage notes on 17th-century French, including information on the situations in which words or meanings are used, the level of usage and the region in which they are typical. He also gives spelling variants and the pronunciation of hard words as well as "dirty" words, provincial words, vocabulary of the common folk, neologisms and archaic words. An enormous commercial success, it had 60 editions between 1680 and 1811. Show more