Émile Chautard (Romanist)

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Émile Chautard in 1929

Émile Chautard (born March 4, 1864 in Paris , † after 1937) was a French author and argot researcher .

Life

Chautard was a typesetter by profession. All that is known about his life is that he was a member of the "Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile de France" and was awarded the Ordre des Palmes Académiques for his books .

His main work is the extensive and information-rich book La vie étrange de l'argot ("The Strange Life of Argot  "), Paris 1931, 720 pages, which was appreciated by connoisseurs (including Louis-Ferdinand Céline ) and published in 1992 (Étoile-sur -Rhône) and 2013 (Paris), most recently with a foreword by Céline specialist Henri Godard.

Works

  • Goualantes de la Villette et d'ailleurs. Portraits et documents autographes inédits , Paris 1929
  • Glossaire typographique comprenant les mots classiques, ceux du langage ouvrier consacrés par l'usage comme les nouveaux qui le seront demain avec les poésies et chansons de métier , ed. by René-Louis Doyon (1885–1966), Paris 1937 (155 pages)

literature

  • Franz Josef Hausmann : 120. The dictionary of spoken language, argot and slang . In: Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta (eds.): Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of the volume . DeGruyter, Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-11-01242-0-0 , pp. 1184-1190.

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personal data
SURNAME Chautard, Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author and argot researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH after 1937