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French as language of intimacy in the Modern Age = Le français, langue de l'intime à l'époque moderne et contemporaine / edited by Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau and Marie-Christine Kok Escalle

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Français, langue de l'intime à l'époque moderne et contemporaine and Le français, langue de l'intime à l'époque moderne et contemporaine
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Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
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1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles
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Strien-Chardonneau, Madeleine van and Kok-Escalle, Marie-Christine, 1948-
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Texts in English and French.
Contents
Frontmatter -- Languages and Culture in History -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Escalle Kok, Marie-Christine / Strien-Chardonneau, Madeleine van -- 1. Le français langue seconde, langue de la relation intime, de la relation à soi et à l'autre / Strien-Chardonneau, Madeleine van / Escalle, Marie-Christine Kok -- Part I From French as a Language of the Bilingual Netherlands to the 'Language of Universality' in a Wider Europe (Sixteenth -- Eighteenth Centuries) Du français langue du bilinguisme aux Pays-Bas à la 'langue de l'universalité' dans l'Europe élargie (seizième -- dix-huitième siècles) -- 2. Vertu versus Deugd / Reinders, Sophie -- 3. Correspondance de Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp (1762-1834) avec sa mère Carolina van Haren (1741-1812) / Strien-Chardonneau, Madeleine van -- 4. Le français langue de l'intime dans la correspondance de la comtesse d'Albany / Piselli, Francesca -- 5 Seduction, Introspection, Experimentation / Isenberg, Nancy -- Part II The Use of French as a Second Language: From Continuity to Geographical Growth (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries) De l'utilisation du français langue seconde. De la continuité à l'expansion géographique (dix-neuvième -- vingtième siècles) -- 6. The French Language in the Diaries of Olga Davydova / Debrenne, Michèle -- 7. Les Souvenirs du jeune Harco Hora Siccama (1854-1858) / Escalle, Marie-Christine Kok -- 8. Intimate' Notes from Hell / Güven, Hanife / Güven, Devrim Çetin -- 9. Writing in French / Öztürk, Banu -- Index
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9789048529988 (electronic bk.)
9048529980 (electronic bk.)
9789462980594
9462980594
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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