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Article: Dominique Bouhours: Doutes sur la langue francoise proposez a Messieurs de l'Academie Francoise.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Dominique Bouhours: Doutes sur la langue francoise proposez a Messieurs de l'Academie Francoise. Ed. by GIOVANNI DOTOLI and FULVIA FIORINO. (Biblioteca della Ricerca, Linguistica 5) Fasano: Schena; Paris: Didier. 1998. 430 pp. 45,000 lire.
A critical edition of Dominique Bouhours's Doutes (1674) was long overdue. The most important and best organized of his numerous commentaries on the literary language of his time, it established standards that have lost none of their validity today. Although he revered Vaugelas (whose authority he often invokes in the present work), he chose not to follow his predecessor's loose arrangement of the material of the Remarques sur la ...