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Spelling and punctuation before the 16th century was highly erratic, but the introduction of printing in 1470 provoked the need for uniformity.. Several Renaissance humanists (working with publishers) proposed reforms in French orthography, the most famous being Jacques Peletier du Mans who developed a phonemic-based spelling system and introduced new typographic signs (1550).
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.
Since World War I, there have been many changes in borders between nations, detailed below. For information on border changes from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to 1914, see the list of national border changes (1815–1914). Cases are only listed where there have been changes in borders, not necessarily including changes in ownership of a ...
Since the beginning of the French Fifth Republic, revisions have been adopted without using section 89.. The Constitutional Act of 4 June, 1960 was adopted by a parliamentary vote according to the original article 85 of the Constitution, which involved the Senate of the Community.
This decision, which began with the words "Having regard to the constitution and its preamble," affected a considerable change of French constitutional law, as the preamble and the texts it referred to, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 and the preamble to the constitution of the Fourth Republic, took their place ...
Another post-1968 change was the birth of "Écriture féminine" promoted by the feminist Editions des Femmes, with new women writers as Chantal Chawaf, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray... From the 1960s on, many of the most daring experiments in French literature have come from writers born in French overseas departments or former colonies.
French also shows enormous phonetic changes between the Old French period and the modern language. Spelling, however, has barely changed, which accounts for the wide differences between current spelling and pronunciation. Some of the most profound changes have been: The loss of almost all final consonants.
The Daily Telegraph's Alastair Sooke compared Love Lasts Three Years to Holiday in a Coma, a 1994 novel by Beigbeder about the same main character.Sooke said it retains "splashes of the acid wit" from the earlier book, but Love Lasts Three Years is a more reflective work with simpler language and fragmentary chapters, which successfully convey the feeling of being in love.