Publication

2016 - Amsterdam University Press

Language

English

Word Count

52,500 words, Guess

Page Count

210 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789462980594
  • ISBN-109462980594
  • OCLC Control Number944087281
  • Better World Books9789462980594
  • Open LibraryOL36219382M

Classifications

  • LCCPC3552.F76 2017
  • LCCPC3552 .F76 2017

Description

For centuries, French was the language of international commercial and diplomatic relations, a near-dominant language in literature and poetry, and was widely used in teaching. It even became the fashionable language of choice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for upper class Dutch, Russians, Italians, Egyptians, and others for personal correspondence, travel journals, and memoirs. This book is the first to take a close look at how French was used in that latter context: outside of France, in personal and private life. It gathers contributions from historians, literary scholars, and linguists and covers a wide range of geographical areas. --

Subjects

Other Editions

  • French As Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age: Le Français, Langue de l'intime à l'époque ModerneAmsterdam University Press2016-01-01

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