Abel Hermant

Abel Hermant ( born February 3, 1862 in Paris, † September 29, 1950 in Chantilly) was a French writer, journalist, and member of the Académie française Sprachpurist.

Life and work

Hermant was 1880, the entrance exam to the Ecole Normale Supérieure as valedictorian, but left the university and led an existence as a writer and journalist. He wrote many novels and plays.

Hermant was elected in 1927 to the French Academy, in 1944 excluded and sentenced to life imprisonment as a collaborator, but pardoned in 1948. He justified himself in the book Le cahier Treizième. Rêveries et souvenirs d'un philosophe proscrit (Paris 1949).

In the Romance languages ​​Abel Hermant is known as the author of verrissenen of Ferdinand Brunot grammar of the French Academy (1932) and as the author sprachpuristischer publications, including the language chronicles, which he published under the pseudonym of Lancelot in the daily newspaper Le Temps (France). The scientific interest of his writings is purist as Therive André and André Moufflet in the fullness of observations for ( passionately fought ) Change ( diachrony ) of the language.

Works ( language cultivation )

  • Questions and Answers sur la grammaire française. Paris 1923 (325 pages)
  • Xavier ou les Entretiens sur la grammaire française. Paris 1923 (272 pages), 55th edition 1928
  • Lettres à Xavier sur l'art d' écrire. Paris 1925 1926
  • Remarques de M. Lancelot pour la défense de la langue française. Paris 1929 (251 pages)
  • Nouvelles de remarques M. Lancelot pour la défense de la langue française. Paris 1929 (285 pages)
  • La grammaire de l' Académie française. Prononcé Discours à la séance publique of the cinq le 25 octobre académies 1930. Paris 1930
  • Les samedis de monsieur Lancelot. Paris 1931
  • Ainsi parla Monsieur Lancelot. Le bon usage du français. Paris 1932
  • Grammaire de l' Académie française. Paris 1932
  • Savoir parler. Paris 1935
  • ( Défense de la langue française ) Chroniques de Lancelot du " Temps " ( Année 1933). Paris 1935 (1937) (580 pages)
  • ( Défense de la langue française ) Chroniques de Lancelot du " Temps " ( Années 1935-1936 ). Paris 1938 (1939) ( 376 pages )
  • ( Défense de la langue française ) Lancelot. 1937, Paris 1939 ( 237 pages )
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