La Pie Monet

published nothing in French. But it was undermined by the growing use of the vernacular in Jesuit and Oratorian schools and by the efforts of lexicographers and grammarians to codify the French language. Latin–French inventories and trésors (Nicot, 1606; Monet, 1635) continued to appear, as did modern-language dictionaries, like Randle Cotgrave’s Dictionary of the French and English Tongues (1611). But Ménage’s Origines de la langue française (1650) branched out into etymology, and the first monolingual dictionary