Claude Favre de Vaugelas

Biography

Wire of Antoine Favre, president of the Senate of Savoy to Chambéry and baron of Pérouges, it is born in Closed Vaugelas in the parish from Meximieux in Bresse, which forms part at the time of the States of Savoy. Speaking the French, the Italian and the Spanish , it works as interprets at the court of Louis XIII. In 1624, with died of his/her father, he becomes baron of Pérouges.

In addition to its work within the French Academy, of which he is member as of the beginning at the end of 1634 and where he will devote fifteen years of his life to the Dictionnaire while taking part in the drafting of the articles starting with the letters has with I. Vaugelas also takes part in those of the Académie florimontane of Annecy of which he is one of the founding members.

Its principal work, published in 1647 is entitled Remarques on the French language, useful to those which want to speak and well write well. Vaugelas seeks to define in it and there to codify the good use of French while taking as a starting point the spoken language at the court of the king, in the line of Malherbe.

This end grammairien, polemized with Ménage, in particular in its Observations on the French language (1650).

The tradition ensures that its last words were still a remark on the use of the language: I from go away, or I from go away, because one or the other is said, or are said. (This sentence is also allotted to Dominique Bouhours.)

Vaugelas left its name to the college of Chambéry, with the college of Meximieux like to a pond of the commune of Villefontaine.

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