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Gaston Paris: Romance Philologist and Member of the French Academy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

H. A. Todd
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For a number of years a mot passed quietly about in the learned world of Paris—fortunately without ever committing the indiscretion of finding its way into print—to the effect that Gaston Paris ought to be elected to the French Academy in order that there might be in that august body at least one member who was an authority on the French language. Another and more piquant form of this much appreciated pleasantry, was that the one man who, as a matter of course, could not expect to be elected to the Academy, happened to be the greatest living authority on the subject of its labors.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , 1897 , pp. 341 - 354
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1897

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page 347 note 1 Perhaps almost the only criticism of a general nature that could be applied to this work is its failure in some cases to grasp the bearing of certain principles not at that time fully understood, such as the nature of accent, doublets (car, quer) and the influence of analogy in such words as amour, époux.

page 353 note 1 Especially to be cited for the convenience of scholars who have yet to become acquainted with the work of Gaston Paris, are his Littérature française au moyen dye, 1 vol. in-16, and his Poésie au moyen age, leçons et lectures, 2 vol. in-16.