F. Brunot (1860-1937) : la fabrication d'une mémoire de la langue

Jean-Claude Chevalier : F. Brunot (1860-1938) : the Fabrication of a Memory of the French Language This article studies how the French linguist F. Brunot — author of the huge and famed History of the French language — was educated and how his career developed. It shows the way his conception of the history of the French language as memory was strongly determined not only by the French academic tradition, but also above all by the future Brunot envisioned for French society.Chevalier Jean-Claude. F. Brunot (1860-1937) : la fabrication d'une mémoire de la langue. In: Langages, 28ᵉ année, n°114, 1994. Mémoire, histoire, langage, sous la direction de Jean-Jacques Courtine. pp. 54-68