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  2. Letters Written in France - Wikipedia

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    Letters Written in France (1790–1796) is a series of letters written by English writer Helen Maria Williams.Williams wrote eight volumes of letters describing her firsthand experience of the French Revolution for British audiences, of which the first volume, describing the summer of 1790, was the most famous and influential. [1]

  3. Flaubert's letters - Wikipedia

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    The letters of Gustave Flaubert (French: la correspondance de Flaubert), the 19th-century French novelist, range in date from 1829, when he was 7 or 8 years old, to a day or two before his death in 1880. [1] They are considered one of the finest bodies of letters in French literature, admired even by many who are critical of Flaubert's novels. [2]

  4. Charles Barbier - Wikipedia

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    Each letter could be represented by a two-digit number: the row number followed by the column number. For example, Q = 4,2. The numbers 1 to 5 could, in turn, each be assigned a unique and simple symbol: two symbols together formed each letter. There was also a phonetic version, containing the sounds of the French language.

  5. Geoffroy Tory - Wikipedia

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    Initial letter A from Tory's book Champ-fleury, 1529. Geoffroy (or Geofroy) Tory (Latin: Godofredus Torinus; c. 1480 in Bourges – before 14 October 1533 in Paris) was a French humanist and an engraver, best known for adding accents on letters in French. His life's work has heavily influenced French publishing to this day.

  6. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.

  7. Rare ‘treasure box’ of French letters opened and read after ...

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    More than 100 letters that never reached the crew of a French warship have been read for the first time since they were sent 265 years ago. Rare ‘treasure box’ of French letters opened and ...

  8. Lettres provinciales - Wikipedia

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    Being quickly forced underground while writing the Provincial Letters, Pascal pretended they were reports from a Parisian to a friend in the provinces, on the moral and theological issues then exciting the intellectual and religious circles in the capital. In the letters, Pascal's tone combines the fervor of a convert with the wit and polish of ...

  9. French manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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    A few letters (upward G, sideward M and N) are oriented differently, with the result that D and G depend on a difference in hand shape that has been lost from informal ASL, and N looks like an ASL H. Several letters (hitchhiker-thumb A , clawed E , splayed F , nodding P , etc.) have minor differences that suggest a different "accent"; the thumb ...