A History of the French Language

A History of the French Language
Author: Peter Rickard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2003-10-04
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134838786

Incorporating a description of the Vulgar Latin spoken in Gaul, and the earliest recorded forms of French, the development of the French language through the later Middle Ages and Renaissance period is documented, to show the extent of standardization of form in the 17th and 18th centuries.