Author: GIRARD, Gabriel
Title: Synonymes françois, leurs différentes significations, et le choix qu'il en faut faire pour parler avec justesse . . . Troisième édition.
Description: Paris: de l'Imprimerie de la Veuve d'Houry, 1740. 12mo. xxiv, 495p. Contemporary mottled calf, a little wear at corners, edges and joints; gold-tooled spine with wear at head and foot; marbled endpapers; red-edged leaves. ***** In the 18th century specialised studies of French synonyms began to appear, the first being Girard's La justesse de la langue françoise (1718). Much praised by Voltaire, it was several times re-edited with the title Synonymes françois, and later it was augmented by some of the Encyclopédistes, including Diderot. In 1802 Morin incorporated Girard's work into his Dictionnaire universel des synonymes.

Keywords: French, philology, synonyms, antiquarian


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