19thC ANTIQUE BOOK GRAMMARIAN RICHELET LEXICON A-Z EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY FRENCH

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19thC ANTIQUE BOOK GRAMMARIAN RICHELET LEXICON A-Z EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY FRENCH:
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“Dictionnairefrancois deCesar-Pierre Richelet (...)”.Complete in one volume: A-Z. Published during the 19th century (titlepage and following 3 leaves are missing / unknown specifics, not quite sure the displayed above is the exact title, probably just a short part).Leather binding. Text in french. 834 pages, 21.5 x 13 x 5.5 cm. Poorcondition;sold as is (leather unmounted from spine\'s surface, serious innerbinding issues, book does not open/close properly, book almost inpieces, back-binding not so tight, both boards not firmly attached tobinding but not totally detached yet, foxing, yellow/brown stains,few water- stains, few creased corners on inner pages, minor piece ofpaper missing from few inner pages’ margin not affecting text, someleaves more-foxed-than-the-average, some leaves not so firmlyattached to binding but not loose either, holes on inner margin ofsome leaves not affecting text though, maybe few holes and tears,some smell, worn cover where stains, scratches, cracks near spine,pieces missing from boards\' parts, few holes, fragile parts, pieces ofleather unmounted from spine\'s surface and bent corners, worn/damagedspine too where stains, scratches, cracks, rubbed/discolored/splotchyparts, fragile parts, tears/creases, gilded ornaments partial fading,worn labels and from which pieces are missing).

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César-PierreRichelet (8November 1626 – 23 November 1698) was a French grammarianand lexicographer,and the editorof the first dictionaryof the Frenchlanguage. Richeletwas born in Cheminon.His first position was regent of the College of Vitry-le-François,next preceptor in Dijon.Received as an advocate in service to the Parliament of Paris, heabandoned his affairs for literature and researched the Society ofPerrot d\'Ablancourt and that of Petru. He strengthened his knowledgeof classical languages, learned Italian and Spanish, and appliedhimself above all to discovering the origins of the French language.He died in Paris.He is the author of the first French dictionary compiled in amethodical way, published under the title of: Dictionnairefrançois, contenant les mots et les choses, plusieurs nouvellesremarques sur la langue française, ses expressions propres, figuréeset burlesques, la prononciation des mots les plus difficiles, legenre des noms, le régime des verbes, avec les termes les pluscommuns des arts et des sciences: le tout tiré de l’usage et desbons auteurs de la langue française (Geneva,1680). His caustic sense of humour earned him enemies; this firstedition, of which there were several counterfeit foreign editions,contains satirical passages at the expense of notables of the dayincluding Amelotde La Houssaye, Furetière,Varillas, andothers. Later editions of Richelet were published, both expurgatedand augmented. Those that appeared after his death are distinguishedby that of Pierre Aubert (Lyon, 1728, 3 vol. in-fol.) and that ofGoujet (Ioffer., 1759–63, 3 vol. in-fol.). Later editions wereabridged such as that of Gattel (Paris, 1842, 2 vol. in-8). Otherworks by Richelet are: La Versificationfrançaise, ou l’Art de bien faire et tourner les vers(Paris, 1671, in-12) *Commencements de lalangue française, ou Grammaire tirée de l’usage et des bonsauteurs (Ioffer., 1694., in-12), Connaissancedes genres français (Ioffer., 1694, in-12). He was also the author ofseveral untitled translations as well as: Lesplus belles Lettres des meilleurs auteurs français(Lyon, 1689, in-12; Paris, 1698, 2 vol. in-12) and editor of:Dictionnaire des rimes(Paris, 1667, in-12), which he attributed to himself but was the workof Fr. d’Ablancourt. His Dictionnairefrançois is distinguished in: the rejectionof dialectic words, only including words in general use, therejection of archaic words andthe rejection of trivial words.