Charles Nisard

See also: Nisard

Marie-Léonard Charles Nisard , born with the Châtillon-on-Seine the January 10th 1808 and dead the July 16th 1890, is a French philologist, also editor and translator of Latin texts and historian of the literature.

Under-secretary with the Ministère of the Police force in the Années 1850, it is charged to count and censure the literature of Colportage, which enables him to constitute an important collection of popular books. He thus produces the first historical study on the subject like several studies on the vocabulary of the Parisian Argot and his etymology. He is elected member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1875.

Charles Nisard is the brother of the academician Désiré Nisard.

Principal publications

  • Camera-lucida. Contemporary portraits and genre paintings (1845)
  • the literary Triumvirate in XVIe century: Right Lipse, Joseph Scaliger and Isaac Casaubon (1852). Republication: Slatkine, Geneva, 1970.
  • Enemies of Voltaire: the abbot Desfontaines, Fréron, Beaumelle (1853) Text in line
  • History of the popular books or the chapbooks since XVe century until the establishment of the Board of examiners of the books of hawking (November 30th, 1852) (2 volumes, 1854) Text in line 1 2
  • Gladiators of the Republic of the letters at XVe, XVIe and XVIIe centuries (1860). Republication: Slatkine, Geneva, 1970.
  • French Curiosities of the etymology of some proverbs and popular sayings (1863) Text in line
  • Study on the popular speech or patois of Paris and its suburbs (1872). Republication: France-expansion, Paris, 1973. Text in line
  • Of the popular songs at the old ones and French, historical test follow-up of a study on the contemporary song of the streets (2 volumes, 1876) Text in line 1 2
  • Of some popular parisianisms and other phrases not yet or more or less imperfectly explained XVIIe, XVIIIe and XIXe centuries (1876). Republication: Ennoïa, Rennes, 2003.
  • the Count de Caylus, according to its new correspondence with the P. Paciaudi (théatin) librarian of the duke of Parma: 1717-1765 (1877)
  • precarious State of the literary property in XVIe century (1884)
  • Guillaume Of Tillot, a servant minister and Secretary of State, episode of the 1749, French history in Italy to 1771 (1887)
  • the Poet Fortunat (1890)
; Editions and translations
  • Cicéron: complete Works (6 volumes, 1840-1882)
  • Pierre-Daniel Huet: Memories (1718) (1853) Text in line
  • Jean-Baptist-Antoine Suard: Historical Memories and correspondences and literary news (1726 to 1816) (1858) Text in line
  • François Parked: Mémoires of Parked, of the Society of Jesus (1860) Text in line
  • Justin: philippic Stories extracted from Trogue Pumped (1864)
  • Venance Fortunat: Poetries frays (1887) Text in line

External bonds

; Texts of Charles Nisard in line
  • '' Curiosités of the French etymology '': Foreword.
  • '' Curiosités of the French etymology '': Etymology of a hundred French popular expressions.
  • '' Histoire of the popular books '': Chapter 1: Of the Almanacs .

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