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Volumes 21–23: Material of unknown or uncertain origin, loanwords from other Romance languages, as well as corrections and new research. Volumes 24 and 25: New revisions of the letter "A". [2] [3] There is a much-abridged version, the Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française, published by the Presses universitaires de France. [4]
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1] à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu". In America "à la Carte Menu" can be found, an oxymoron and a pleonasm. à propos
The Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (DEAF) is an etymological dictionary of Old French.The lexicographic project was born in the mid-1960s and has been in progress ever since with its headquarters at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany).
The Trésor de la langue française informatisé or TLFi (French pronunciation: [tʁezɔʁ də la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz ɛ̃fɔʁmatize]; "Digitized Treasury of the French Language") is a digital version of the Trésor de la langue française or TLF ("Treasury of the French Language"), a 16-volume dictionary of the French language of the 19th and 20th centuries, which was published between ...
The IETF language tags have registered fr-1694acad for Early Modern French, "17th century French, as catalogued in the "Dictionnaire de l'académie françoise", 4eme ed. 1694; frequently includes elements of Middle French, as this is a transitional period". [5]
"La Marseillaise" [a] is the national anthem of France. It was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by the First French Republic against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin ". [b] The French National Convention adopted it as the First Republic's anthem ...
The Dictionnaire de la langue française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) by Émile Littré, commonly called simply the "Littré", is a four-volume dictionary of the French language published in Paris by Hachette. The dictionary was originally issued in 30 parts, 1863–72; a second edition is dated 1872–77.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃tɛlm bʁija savaʁɛ̃]; 2 April 1755 – 2 February 1826) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences and reflections on the craft and science of cookery and the art of eating.