French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age
Le francais, langue de l'intime a l'epoque moderne et contemporaine
Published on 1. October 2025
210 pages
978-1-040-78580-5 (ISBN)
Description
For centuries, French was the language of international commercial and diplomatic relations, a near-dominant language in literature and poetry, and was widely used in teaching. It even became the fashionable language of choice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for upper class Dutch, Russians, Italians, Egyptians, and others for personal correspondence, travel journals, and memoirs. This book is the first to take a close look at how French was used in that latter context: outside of France, in personal and private life. It gathers contributions from historians, literary scholars, and linguists and covers a wide range of geographical areas.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
10,42 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-78580-5 (9781040785805)
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Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau | Marie-Christine Kok Escalle
French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age
Le francais, langue de l'intime a l'epoque moderne et contemporaine
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1st Edition
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Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau | Marie-Christine Kok Escalle
French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age
Le francais, langue de l'intime a l'epoque moderne et contemporaine
Book
12/2016
Amsterdam University Press
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Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau is a retired lecturer of French language and culture and an Associate Member of Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines. Her scholarly interests include the accounts of French travelers in the Netherlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the history of the teaching of French in the Netherlands, the francophone Dutch writer Isabelle de Charriere and the personal writings of Netherlanders in French.
Marie-Christine Kok Escalle has been Associate Professor of French Culture and Intercultural Communication at Utrecht University, and after her retirement she continued as Senior Researcher at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Utrecht University). Her scholarly interests include the cultural role the French language has played in the Netherlands, specially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the development of intercultural competence through foreign language learning and teaching in the past as well as nowadays.
Marie-Christine Kok Escalle has been Associate Professor of French Culture and Intercultural Communication at Utrecht University, and after her retirement she continued as Senior Researcher at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Utrecht University). Her scholarly interests include the cultural role the French language has played in the Netherlands, specially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the development of intercultural competence through foreign language learning and teaching in the past as well as nowadays.
Content
Introduction, 1. Le francais langue seconde, langue de la relation intime, de la relation a soi et a l'autre, I. From French as a language of the bilingual Netherlands to the 'language of universality' in a wider Europe (sixteenth - eighteenth centuries) / Du francais langue du bilinguisme aux Pays-Bas a la 'langue de l'universalite' dans l'Europe elargie (seizieme - dix-huitieme siecles), II. The use of French as a second language: From continuity to geographical growth (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) / De l'utilisation du francais langue seconde: De la continuite a l'expansion geographique (dix-neuvieme-vingtieme siecles), Index
