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RIVAROL (Antoine de). Discours préliminaire du nouveau dictionnaire de la langue française. [Followed by] De l'Universalité de la langue française. Subject proposed by the Berlin Academy in 1783. Paris, Cocheris, an V (1797). In-4, blond half calf, smooth spine, gilt fillets (Boichot). First French edition. A brilliant figure of the counter-revolution, Antoine Rivarol undertook to publish a Nouveau dictionnaire de la langue française commissioned by Fauche. His talent being matched only by his dilettantism, he published only the Preliminary Discourse, a veritable philosophical manifesto on language, subtitled De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de ses idées premières et fondamentales. A good copy in modern binding. (Tchemerzine, V, 409 and 403.)

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RIVAROL (Antoine de). Discours préliminaire du nouveau dictionnaire de la langue française. [Followed by] De l'Universalité de la langue française. Subject proposed by the Berlin Academy in 1783. Paris, Cocheris, an V (1797). In-4, blond half calf, smooth spine, gilt fillets (Boichot). First French edition. A brilliant figure of the counter-revolution, Antoine Rivarol undertook to publish a Nouveau dictionnaire de la langue française commissioned by Fauche. His talent being matched only by his dilettantism, he published only the Preliminary Discourse, a veritable philosophical manifesto on language, subtitled De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de ses idées premières et fondamentales. A good copy in modern binding. (Tchemerzine, V, 409 and 403.)

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