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The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française is the official dictionary of the French language . The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes, even governmental authorities disregard the Académie's rulings.
Literature portal. v. t. e. In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors. [ 1 ] In genre fiction, the term anthology typically categorizes collections of shorter works, such as ...
The Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (DEAF) is an etymological dictionary of Old French. The lexicographic project was born in the mid-1960s and has been in progress ever since with its headquarters at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany). Known and valued amongst linguists, philologists and medievalists ...
André Desvallées (1931 – 5 June 2024) was a French museologist and Honorary General Conservator of Heritage. For 18 years, from 1959 to 1977, he was assistant to Georges Henri Rivière, considered the "father of French museology". He had a leading role in the development of this discipline, and in the creation and definition of several ...
The Dictionnaire de la langue française by Émile Littré, commonly called simply the " Littré ", is a four-volume dictionary of the French language published in Paris by Hachette. The dictionary was originally issued in 30 parts, 1863–72; a second edition is dated 1872–77. A further edition is reported in 1877, published by Hachette .
Émile Littré. Émile Maximilien Paul Littré ( French: [litʁe]; 1 February 1801 – 2 June 1881) was a French lexicographer, freemason [1] and philosopher, best known for his Dictionnaire de la langue française, commonly called le Littré .
The Collins Robert French Dictionary (marketed in France as Le Robert et Collins Dictionnaire) is a bilingual dictionary of English and French derived [clarification needed] from the Collins Word Web, an analytical linguistics database. As well as its primary function as a bilingual dictionary, it also contains usage guides for English and ...
Died. 15 April 2015. (2015-04-15) (aged 94) Occupation (s) Linguist. Grammarian. Lexicographer. Jean Dubois ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ dybwa]; 17 August 1920 – 15 April 2015) was a French linguist, grammarian and lexicographer .