Claude Favre de Vaugelas

Claude Favre de Vaugelas (January 6, 1595 - February 1650) was a French grammarian and man of letters. January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 30 - William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time. ... // Events June 23 - Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler. ... Grammar is the discovery, enunciation, and study of rules governing the use of language. ...

Born at Meximieux, in the Ain département of France. He became gentleman-in-waiting to Gaston, Duke of Orleans, and continued faithful to this prince in his disgrace, although his fidelity cost him a pension from the crown on which he was largely dependent. Meximieux is a commune in the French département of Ain. ... Ain is a département named after the Ain River on the eastern edge of France bordering Switzerland. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ... Gaston Jean-Baptiste, duc dOrléans (April 25, 1608 - February 2, 1660), third son of the French king Henry IV, and his wife Marie de Medici, was born at Fontainebleau. ...

His thorough knowledge of the French language and the correctness of his speech won him a place among the original members of the Académie française in 1634. On the representation of his colleagues his pension was restored so that he might have leisure to pursue his Remarques sur la langue française (1647). In this work he maintained that words and expressions were to be judged by the current usage of the best society, of which, as a regular of the Hotel de Rambouillet, Vaugelas was a competent judge. He shares with Malherbe the credit of having purified French diction. His book fixed the current usage, and the classical writers of the 17th century regulated their practice by it. French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... The Académie française, or French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ... Events Moses Amyrauts Traite de la predestination is published Curaçao captured by the Dutch Treaty of Polianovska First meeting of the Académie française The witchcraft affair at Loudun Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin Opening of Covent Garden Market in London English establish a settlement... // Events March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. ... The Hôtel de Rambouillet was the Paris residence of Madame de Rambouillet, who ran a literary salon there from about 1607 until her death in 1665. ... François de Malherbe François de Malherbe (1555 - October 16, 1628) was a French poet, critic and translator. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...

Protests against the academical doctrine were not lacking. Scipion Dupleix in his Liberté de la langue française dans sa pureté (1651) pleaded for the richer and freer language of the 16th century, and François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer took a similar standpoint in his Lettres a Gabriel Naudi tombant les Remarques sur la langue française. // Events January 1 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. ... François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer (1588 - 1672) was a French writer. ...

Towards the end of his life Vaugelas became tutor to the sons of Thomas Francis of Savoy, Prince of Carignano. He died in Paris in February 1650. Thomas Francis (1596-1656) was the founder of the Savoy-Carignano line of the House of Savoy. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

His translation from Quintus Curtius, La Vie d'Alexandre (posthumously published in 1653) deserves notice as an application of the author's own rules. Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historical writer in the first or second century AD, generally thought to have written under the reign of Claudius. ... Events February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. ...

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• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.