The foreword , is one of the synonyms of foreword.

This term, which is only the word for word translation of prosfatio , was used in French as of. The foreword, as the foreword, has the aim of giving useful indications on the plan and the goal of the delivers.

The foreword always does not exempt a introduction. Thus, Voltaire placed one and the other at the head of sound Essai on manners .

Littré says that “the first which implemented foreword for prolog, was Louis Lecharrond in his Dialogs ; of which one mocquoit at the beginning”.

Source

• Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 173