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See also:VAUGELAS, See also:CLAUDE See also:FAVRE . SEIGNEUR DE, See also:BARON DE PEROGES (1595-165o), See also:French grammarian and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at Meximieu, See also:department of See also:Ain, on the 6th of See also:January 1595. He became See also:gentleman=in-waiting to Gaston d'See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, and continued faithful to this See also:prince in his disgrace, although his fidelity cost him a See also:pension from the See also:crown on which he was largely dependent. His thorough knowledge of the French See also:language and the correctness'of his speech won for him a See also:place among the See also:original academicians. On the See also:representation of his colleagues his pension was restored so that he might have leisure to pursue his admirable Remarques sur la langue,fran.&aise
(1647). In this -See also:work'he maintained that words and expressions were to be judged by the current usage of the best society, of which, as an. habitue of the Hotel de See also:Rambouillet, Vaugelas was a competent See also:judge. He shares with See also:Malherbe the See also:credit of having purified French diction. His See also:book fixed the current usage, and the classical writers of the 17th See also:century regulated their practice by it. Protests against the academical See also:doctrine were not lacking. Scipion See also:Dupleix in his Liberte de la langue francaise clans sa purete (1651) pleaded for the richer and freer language of the 16th century, and See also:Francois de in Mothe le Vayer took a similar standpoint in his Lettres a See also:Gabriel See also:Naude touchant See also:les Remarques sur la langue francaise. Towards the end of his See also:life Vaugelas became See also:tutor to the sons of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Francis of See also:Savoy, prince of Carignan: He died in See also:Paris in See also:February 165o. His See also:translation from See also:Quintus See also:Curtius, La See also:Vie d'See also:Alexandre (posthumously published in 1653) deserves See also:notice as an application of the 'author's own rules.
BiBLIOGRAPIS v.—See Remarques sur la langue francaise, edited with a See also:key by V. See also:Conrart, and See also:introductory notes by A. Chassang (Paris, 188o). The principles of Vaugelas's judgments are explained in the dudes critiques (7e serie) of M. Brunetiere, who regards the name of Vaugelas as a See also:symbol of all that was done in the first See also:halt of the 16th century to perfect and purify the French language. See also F. See also:Brunet in the Histoire de la langue et litterature francaise of See also:Petit de Julleville.
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