French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age: Le Français, Langue de l'Intime à l'Époque Moderne et Contemporaire

For centuries, French was the language of international commercial and diplomatic relations, a near-dominant language in literature and poetry, and was widely used in teaching. It even became the fashionable language of choice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for upper class Dutch, Russian...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Kok Escalle, Marie-Christine (HerausgeberIn), van Strien-Chardonneau, Madeleine (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Languages and culture in history
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Links:https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9789048529988
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Zusammenfassung:For centuries, French was the language of international commercial and diplomatic relations, a near-dominant language in literature and poetry, and was widely used in teaching. It even became the fashionable language of choice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for upper class Dutch, Russians, Italians, Egyptians, and others for personal correspondence, travel journals, and memoirs. This book is the first to take a close look at how French was used in that latter context: outside of France, in personal and private life. It gathers contributions from historians, literary scholars, and linguists and covers a wide range of geographical areas
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)
Umfang:1 online resource 12 halftones
ISBN:9789048529988