Gilles Spares (grammairien)

See also: Household

Gilles Spares , born with Angers the August 15th 1613 and died with Paris the July 23rd 1692, is a Grammairien, historian and writer French.

Lawyer then prior

Wire of a lawyer of Angers, grandson of Pierre Ayraut, it made studies of right to become also lawyer. The disease forced it to give up the career of the bar for that of the Church. He became prior commendataire of Montdidier then enters the entourage of the coadjutor of Paris, Mgr of Gondi, future cardinal of Retz.

Literary career

In 1648, it quarreled with Gondi and left it for the cloister of Notre-Dame de Paris. It held to with it living room in company of Jean Chapelain and Paul Pellisson. The meetings taking place Wednesday, Ménage called them the “Reprimands”. End grammairien, large polemist; it polemized:
  • in 1644 with Pierre de Montmaur,
  • in 1650 with Vaugelas, in particular in its Observations on the French language .

Its treaty of the Origines of the French language can be regarded as the first large etymological Dictionnaire of French.

It was caricatured under the features of the Vadius pedant by Molière in the erudite Women (1672).

Menagiana

In 1715, its thoughts and witty remarks were collected by his/her friends and were published in a work under the title of “ Menagiana ”.

Monnoie charged to correct the tests of Household, by clearing up certain articles, yielded to temptation to intercalate there part of the Anna (curious remarks) dispersed in its wallet. Scrupulous spirits found bad that it had raised the veil on certain personalities, and that it had mingled with its quotations with a little free features. The book was stopped and submitted to critics, with whom it was necessary to compose. Monnoie rather cheap them, had been useful that it was by the credit of the Cardinal of Rohan. Let us quote:

Nothing is so soft that diversity; the iron change holds place of freedom . Extract of Madrigal.

In order to answer the Menagiana , Bernier believed good to produce a Anti-Menagiana (1693)…

Publications

  • Poemata latina, gallica, graeca, and italica (1656);

  • Origini beyond lingua italiana (1669);
  • etymological Dictionary (1650 and 1670);
  • Observations on the French language (1672 - 1676);
  • History of Sanded (1683);
  • Anti-Bailet (1690).

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