Gabriel-Joseph Du Pineau

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Gabriel-Joseph Du Pineau (* 1694 in Angers , † April 5, 1756 in Châtillon-sur-Sèvre , today Mauléon (Deux-Sèvres) ) was a French cleric, Romance scholar , dialectologist and lexicographer.

life and work

Du Pineau was prior of the Abbey of Sainte-Croix in Saint Lô from 1744 to 1748 . He was in contact with Camille Falconet , who inspired him to write several early dialect dictionaries, which, however, have only recently been published.

Works

  • Dictionnaire angevin et françois (1746-1748), ed. by Pierre Rézeau with the assistance of Jean-Paul Chauveau, Paris 1989 (469 pages)
  • "Les mots bas normans" by Gabriel-Joseph Du Pineau (verse 1750), ed. by Jean-Paul Chauveau , Paris 1993

literature

  • Anne-Marie Vurpas, Le français parlé à Lyon vers 1750. Etude critique et commentée des "Mots lyonnois" de G.-J. Du Pineau , Paris 1991
  • René Lepelley, Un dialectologue au temps des Lumières: Jean-Paul Chauveau, Les "Mots bas normans" de Gabriel-Joseph Du Pineau (vers 1750), in: Annales de Normandie 43, 1993, pp. 267-268

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