Colette Demaizière

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Colette Demaizière (born 1929 in Pierre-de-Bresse ; died February 9, 2016 there ) was a French Romance philologist and grammar historian.

life and work

Colette Dumont-Demaizière was Assistant from 1969 and Maître-Assistant from 1975 at the University of Avignon . She completed her habilitation in 1979 at the Sorbonne with the Thèse La grammaire française au XVIème siècle supervised by Robert Loriot . Les grammairiens picards (2 vols., Lille 1983, Paris 2008) and became professor of French at the University of Lyon III in 1981 (where she was also dean for ten years). In 1994 she retired.

Colette Demaizière edited eight French grammars of the sixteenth century (and translated those written in Latin into French). She was a knight in the Ordre national du Mérite .

Other works

  • (with Jacques Guignet) Les auteurs picards d'expression française et latine , Amiens 1977
  • (Ed. With Guy Lavorel) Destin du livre. Travaux du colloque “Auteurs, lecteurs, libraires” , Villeurbanne 1994

Editorial activity on grammar of the 16th century

  • Charles de Bouelles / Carolus Bovillus, Sur les langues vulgaires et la variété de la langue française. Liber de differentia vulgarium linguarum et Gallici sermonis varietate (1533) , Paris 1973
  • Jacques Dubois / Jacobus Sylvius , Grammaire (1531) . Iacobi Syluii Ambiani in linguam Gallicam Isagoge, una cum eiusdem grammatica latino-gallica, ex hebraeis, graecis et latinis authoribus. Introduction à la langue française avec une grammaire latino-française inspirée des auteurs hébreux, grecs et latins par Jacques Dubois d'Amiens, Geneva 1998 (Latin and French)
  • Petrus Ramus / Pierre de la Ramée, Grammaire (1572) , Geneva / Paris 2001
  • Antoine Cauchie / Antonius Caucius, Grammaire française (1586) , Paris 2001 (Latin and French)
  • Robert Estienne , Traicté de la grammaire francoise (1557) , Paris 2003
  • Gabriel Meurier , La grammaire francoise, contenante plusieurs belles reigles propres et necessaires pour ceulx qui desirent apprendre ladicte langue (1557) , Paris 2005
  • Jean Bosquet , Elemens ou Institutions de la langue francoise (1586) , Paris 2005
  • (with Alberte Jacquetin-Gaudet) Daniel Cachedenier , Initiation à la langue française (1601) , Paris 2010 (critical edition, Latin and French)

literature

  • Marie-Hélène Servet: "In memoriam Colette Demaizière". In: Réforme Humanisme Renaissance 82/83, 2016, pp. 9-10.

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personal data
SURNAME Demaizière, Colette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dumont, Colette; Dumont-Demaizière, Colette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies and grammar historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Pierre-de-Bresse
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2016
Place of death Pierre-de-Bresse