Les Portes De L Opium Marcel Schwob

Running in parallel with the disciplining of the lexicon, norms for written French were defined in numerous descriptive grammars. The Grammaire générale et raisonnée (1660) by Arnauld and Lancelot, known 88 THE CLASSICAL AGE as the ‘Grammaire de Port-Royal’, was the first to analyse language through parts of speech. No less influential were linguistic commentators like Balzac, who defined written style as elegance and simplicity, or Vaugelas who, in his Remarques sur la langue française (1647), pronounced