Robert Le Bidois

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Robert Le Bidois (* 1897 ; † 1971 ) was a French Romance studies scholar, linguist and diplomat.

life and work

Robert Le Bidois was the son of Georges Le Bidois . From the thirties he was a French teacher at the City College of New York . Then he moved to the French embassy and, after its establishment, to the language department of the United Nations . He completed his habilitation with the Thèse de doctorat L'inversion du sujet dans la prose contemporaine 1900-1950, étudiée plus spécialement dans l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust (Paris 1952). Le Bidois worked for the language care magazine Vie et langage and, from 1958, for the language puristic magazine Défense de la langue française .

Other works

  • (with Georges Le Bidois ) Syntaxe du français modern. Ses fondements historiques et psychologiques, 2 vols., Paris 1935–1938; 2nd edition 1967 (1324 pages)
  • Les Mots trompeurs ou le Délire verbal, Paris 1970 (linguistic puristic script)

literature

  • Peter Lauwers, La description du français entre la tradition grammaticale et la modernité linguistique. Etude historiographique et épistémologique de la grammaire française entre 1907 et 1948. Löwen / Paris / Dudley 2004, p. 79

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personal data
SURNAME Le Bidois, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LeBidois, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies, linguist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
DATE OF DEATH 1971