César Oudin (''c''. 1560 – 1 October 1625) was a French Hispanist, translator, paremiologist, grammarian and lexicographer. He translated into French ''

La Galatea ''La Galatea'' () was Miguel de Cervantes’ first book, published in 1585. Under the guise of pastoral characters, it is an examination of love and contains many allusions to contemporary literary figures. It enjoyed a modest success, but was n ...

'' and the first part of ''

Don Quixote is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' or, in Spanish, (changing in Part 2 to ). A founding work of Wester ...

''. He wrote a ''Grammaire espagnolle expliquée en Francois'' (1597) which, according to

Amado Alonso Amado Alonso (13 September 1896, Lerín Navarre, Spain – 26 May 1952, Arlington, Massachusetts) was a Spanish philologist, linguist and literary critic, who became a naturalised citizen of Argentina and one of the founders of stylistics (liter ...

, was the model for most grammars written later in other countries such as those by

Heinrich Doergangk Heinrich Doergangk (Cologne, second half of the 16th century - before 1626) was a German Hispanist and grammarian. An advocate of Roman Catholicism, he wrote in Latin a Spanish grammar titled ''Institutiones in linguam hispanicam, admodum faciles ...

Lorenzo Franciosini Lorenzo Franciosini di Castelfiorentino (* Castelfiorentino, ca. 1600 - † after 1645) was an Italian Hispanist, translator, lexicographer and grammarian from the 16th century. He wrote an excellent ''Vocabolario italiano, e spagnolo'' (Rome, 1 ...

Francisco Sobrino Francisco Sobrino (1932 – 11 May 2014) was a Spanish sculptor. His career began in 1959 when he moved to Paris to have a start in his career. His works can be seen in Tel Aviv, Guadalajara, Chicago, Madrid, New York City ...

and Jerónimo de Texeda, among others. His dictionary ''Tesoro de las dos lenguas francesa y española'' (1607) is based on literary texts and was later used by

John Minsheu John Minsheu (or Minshew) (1560–1627) was an English linguist and lexicographer. Biography He was born and died in London. Little is known about his life. He published some of the earliest dictionaries and grammars of the Spanish language for ...

, John Stevens and other lexicographers; Girolamo Vittori expanded this dictionary with trilingual ''Tesoro'' from 1609, later plagiarized by Oudin in his ''Trésor'' of 1616.

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* 1560s births 1625 deaths French Hispanists French lexicographers Grammarians from France Linguists of Spanish French translators Spanish–French translators Interpreters French male writers {{france-translator-stub