Charles-Pierre Girault-Duvivier

Charles-Pierre Girault-Duvivier (born July 13, 1765 in Paris, † March 11, 1832 ibid) was a French grammarian, Romance scholar and compiler.

life and work

Girault-Duvivier was a trained lawyer and a banker after the revolution. As an educator for his children, he became interested in the grammars of the 18th century and put together his own grammar from it, which was published in Paris in 1812 under the title Grammaire des grammaires, ou analyze raisonnée des meilleurs traités sur la grammaire française , and until brought to the 21st edition in 1879.

Other works

Traité des participes. Paris 1815.
Encyclopédie élémentaire de l'antiquité, ou Origine, progrès, état de perfection des arts et des sciences chez les anciens, d'après les meilleurs écrivains, remarques critiques et littéraires. Paris 1829.

literature

Jesse Levitt: The Grammaire des grammaires of Girault-Duvivier. A Study of Nineteenth Century French. Mouton, The Hague 1968 ( Ianua linguarum. Series major 19, ISSN 0075-3114 ), (on this Hans Helmut Christmann in: Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie. 88, 1972, ISSN 0049-8661 , pp. 239-243).
Hans Helmut Christmann: The meeting of descriptive and historical language considerations in the Grammaire des Grammaires. In: Romanesque research. 83, 1971, ISSN 0035-8126 , pp. 173-181.
André Chervel: … Et il fallut apprendre à écrire à tous les petits Français. Histoire de la grammaire scolaire. Payot, Paris 1977, ISBN 2-228-11950-4 ( Langages et sociétés ).

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personal data
SURNAME	Girault-Duvivier, Charles-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French grammarian, romanist and compiler
DATE OF BIRTH	July 13, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	March 11, 1832
Place of death	Paris