Jean Pillot

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Jean Pillot ( Latin: Joannes Pilotus ; * 1515 in Bar-le-Duc ; † 1592 in Phalsbourg ) was a French Romance scholar and grammarian.

life and work

Jean Pillot is best known for his Latin grammar of French, which appeared in 1550 and which he wrote for Georg Johann I (Pfalz-Veldenz) , born in 1543 . It had twenty editions by 1641 and was reissued in 2003 with a French translation.

Works

  • Gallicae linguae institutio latino sermone conscripta, Paris 1550 ( digitized version ); Geneva 1972
    • Institution de la langue française (Gallicae linguae institutio, 1561), ed. by Bernard Colombat, Paris 2003 (Latin and French)

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