A study, with critical editions, of the genre of Observations on the French language

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Seventeenth-century France witnessed the emergence of a new kind of work on French. These volumes of observations and remarks about points of doubtful usage constitute vital sources for the history of the standardisation of French and provide invaluable information about variation and change. The first, and most important, text is Vaugelas's Remarques sur la langue Francoise (1647) which quickly became the authoritative work on good usage. Subsequent volumes adopt and adapt Vaugelas's format, commenting on his pronouncements. This project aims to provide paper and electronic editions of the major volumes and a monograph on the genesis of the genre.