The sixty French texts edited here are all direct commentaries, by
contemporary authors, on the French language in the 17th century.
By this time, French had begun to assert its independence; in its
written and printed form it was being used for a wide variety of
literary, technical and administrative purposes. Its practitioners
not only successfully challenged the hitherto dominant position of
Latin, but also began, for the first time, to discuss and analyse
for its own sake the language which was now their preferred medium
for expression -- hence, in the first half of the seventeenth
century, a growing number of publications on the nature and
characteristics of French. The texts demonstrate the sustained
critical preoccupationwith the welfare of the French language in
the 17th century, and illustrate the various ways in which the
writers of the age contributed to its development as an instrument
of literary expression and social intercourse.
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