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Claude Favre, seigneur de Vaugelas
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Born January 6, 1585 • France
Died February 1650 (aged 65) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Remarques sur la langue françoise, utiles à ceux qui veulent bien parler et bien escrire”
Subjects Of Study French language • standard language
Jean-Jacques Ampère
French historian
A.-H. Anquetil-Duperron
French scholar and linguist
Nanteuil, Robert: engraving of Gilles Ménage
Gilles Ménage
French scholar
James Darmesteter
French orientalist
Arsène Darmesteter
French scholar
Jan Frans Willems
Flemish poet and philologist
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Nicholas Oresme
French bishop, scholar, and economist
Roland Barthes
French critic
Alexandre de Rhodes
French missionary
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
Mme du Châtelet, detail of a portrait by an unknown French artist; in a private collection
Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet
French scientist and philosopher
Luce Irigaray
French linguist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher
Joachim du Bellay, pencil drawing, 16th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Joachim du Bellay
French poet
Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange
French scholar
Amyot, Jacques
Jacques Amyot
French scholar
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Huet, Pierre-Daniel
Pierre-Daniel Huet
French philosopher and bishop
Valentin Conrart
French scholar
Perrault, Claude
Claude Perrault
French physician and architect