Jean Bosquet

Jean Bosquet (* in the first half of the 16th century in Mons ; † in the second half of the 16th century) was a Romance scholar and grammarian.

life and work

Jean Bosquet was a school teacher in Mons in what is now the Belgian town of Hainaut. He is best known for his Grammar of French, published in 1586, reprinted in 1972 and reissued in 2005. It was intended for the Flemings to learn French as well as for language-conscious Francophones.

The grammarian Jean Bosquet is not to be confused with his born 1559 eponymous son , who distinguished himself also as a writer.

Works

• Elemens ou institutions de la langue françoise propres pour façonner la jeunesse à parfaictement et nayvement entendre parler et escrire icelle langue, Mons 1586, Geneva 1972
• Elemens ou institutions de la langue françoise (1586), ed. by Colette Demaizière, Paris 2005
• Fleurs morales et sentences préceptives ...: avec autres poèmes ... pris des plus excellens autheurs grecs et latins et reduis en ryme françoise ... reveües, corrigées et augmentées par l'autheur Jean Bosquet, ... Ensemble un discours. .. en forme d'ode ... à l'honneur de pauvreté honneste et louäble, Mons 1587

literature

• Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle sv
• J. Delecourt: Bosquet, Jean, Alexandre et Frédéric , in: Biographie Nationale de Belgique , Vol. 2, 1868
• Colette Demaizière, La grammaire française au XVIème siècle. Les grammairiens picards , 2 vols., Lille 1983 (Thèse Paris IV, 1979)
• Pierre Swiggers, Terminologie et descriptions grammaticales dans les Elemens ou Institutions de la langue Françoise de Jean Bousquet (1586), in: Travaux de Linguistique et de Philologie 38, 2000, pp. 253-273

Web links

• Literature by and about Jean Bosquet in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)