When The World Spoke French
$40.62
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2011
Summary
From the death of Louis XIV to the Revolution—in Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany; among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers, great ladies, and artists—French was the universal language.
This book presents a series of portraits of foreigners who conversed and corresponded in French regardless of their native language, accompanied by excerpts from their letters or other writings, to demonstrate the genius of the language in the period when …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590173756 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590173759 |
| Author: | Marc Fumaroli, Richard Holmes |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 563g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 202mm |
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Critics Review
A vivid and provocative read. Independent on Sunday A graceful vehicle for the writer’s personal anxiety as to the decline of the language whose flame he has always so ardently sought to keep. Sunday Telegraph A gem for history lovers. Destination France
Marc Fumaroli
Marc Fumaroli is a scholar on French rhetoric and art. He is a member of the British Academy; the American Academy of Science, Letters and Arts; the Societe d’histoire litteraire de la France; and the Academie francaise. Fumaroli received the Monseigneur Marcel and the Critique prizes in 1982 and 1992, respectively, and is president of the Societe des Amis du Louvre.
RICHARD HOWARD is the author of seventeen volumes of poetry and has published more than one hundred fifty translations from the French. He has received a National Book Award for his translation of Les Fleurs du Mal and a Pulitzer Prize for Untitled Subjects, a collection of poetry. His most recent book of poems, inspired by his own schooling in Ohio, is A Progressive Education (2014).
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