Pierre-Roland-François Butet de La Sarthe (16 November 1769, Tuffé – 15 January 1825, Paris) was a French

grammar In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structure, structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clause (linguistics), clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraint ...

ian and

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoreti ...

. A member of the

Société des observateurs de l'homme Société des observateurs de l'homme, rendered in English as Society of Observers of Man, was a French learned society founded in Paris in 1799. Long considered the birthplace of French anthropology, the society nevertheless dissolved in 1804. ...

, he was also a resident member of the

Société des Antiquaires de France The Société des Antiquaires de France (Society of Antiquaries of France) is a Parisian historical and archaeological society, founded in 1804 under the name of the Académie celtique (Celtic Academy). It is now based at the Louvre, in the pavil ...

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Works

*1801
''Abrégé d'un cours complet de lexicologie à l'usage des élèves de la quatrième classe de l'école polymathique…'' Read online
*1801
''Abrégé d'un cours complet de lexicographie, à l'usage des élèves de la cinquième classe de l'Ecole polymathique'' Read online
*1821: ''Mémoire historique et critique, dans lequel l'S se plaint des irruptions orthographiques de l'X, qui l'a supplantée dans plusieurs cas, sans aucune autorisation ni étymologique, ni analogique ; à MM. les membres de l'Académie française et de celle des Inscriptions et belles-lettres''.

Sources

* ''Annales de l'Académie de Mâcon'', Mâcon, L'Académie, 1905, (p. 79).

External links

Pierre Roland François Butet
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