BOK.FRA.AD1578

Deux dialogues du Nouveau Langage François

Deux dialogues du Nouveau Langage François, Italianize et Autrement Déguisé, Principalement Entre les Courtisans de ce Temps.

Two Dialogues of the New French Language, Italianize and Otherwise Disguised, Mainly Between the Courtiers of This Time.

Henri Estienne II, (Henricus Stephanus II), created this satirical work in response to "a perceived threat to the French language from outside," citing the "Italianized language of the court" (Hornsby). The work seeks to criticize the loss of French culture in the country and call for repatriation. Henri II experienced so much backlash for this book that he had make "a brief return to Paris to escape the wrath of the [Genevan] Council" ("Henri II Estienne").

Stephanus took over the French publishing institution his grandfather, Henri Estienne I, established. "Henri Estienne mastered Latin, Greek, and Italian and devoted a significant amount of work to translating, editing, publishing, and collating essential classical texts" (Shangler).
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“Henri II Estienne (1528-98): Paris 1554; Geneva 1557-1598.” Estiennes at the Edward Worth Library. Edward Worth Library. Accessed February 5, 2021. https://estiennes.edwardworthlibrary.ie/estienne-family/henri-ii/.

Hornsby, David. "Patriotism and linguistic purism in France: Deux dialogues dans le nouveau langage françois and Parlez-vous Franglais?." Journal of European Studies 28, no. 4 (1998): 331-354.

Shangler, Nicholas. "The language of identity: Henri Estienne's anti-Italian polemics." The Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History 18 (2015): 103+. Gale Literature Resource Center (accessed October 26, 2020). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A450999506/LitRC?u=byuidaho&sid=LitRC&xid=c7bcae4b.

1578 AD

Henri Estienne II

Henricus Stephanus II

Henri Estienne II

Henricus Stephanus II

French court

Geneva

Switzerland

16th Century

Print

First Edition

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Middle French

Ex Libris sticker on the back of the front cover: "Bibliothèque de Mr. Beaupré, Conseiller à la Cour de Nancy."
Jean-Nicolas Beaupré (1795-1869) was a "[m]agistrate and historian[, c]ounselor at the Imperial Court[, c]orresponding member of the Academy of Strasbourg, of the Society of Antiquaries of France and one of the founders of the Society of Archeology of Lorraine (“Jean-Nicolas Beaupré (1795-1869)”).
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“Jean-Nicolas Beaupré (1795-1869).” Bibliotéque Nationale de France. Accessed January 15, 2021. https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12743619/jean-nicolas_beaupre/.

Ex Libris stamp on the verso side of the first endpaper: "F. Fasting Ex-Libris No. 3902 Rio De Janeiro"
"3902" is handwritten in blue ink

Donated by L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

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Estienne II, Henri, 1528/1531-1598. Deux dialogues du Nouveau Langage François, Italianize et Autrement Déguisé, Principalement Entre les Courtisans de ce Temps. Geneva: Henri Estienne II, 1578.