Notes: Popular language, by Henri Bauche

Grammar, syntax and dictionary of French as it is spoken by the people of Paris, by Henri Bauche (Payot).

To carry out his research, which is ingenious and patient, Mr. Bauche has based himself on two or three general ideas: he thus admits that the "error" language of today will be the correct language of tomorrow, and that by immediately saying estatue or sornambule, we would save time. Or again: that the quantity of literature which could come out of regular French is today exhausted. To such debatable opinions, we owe an amusing, complete, scientific book (but there is nothing as innocent as science).
J.P.

Read the original text published in the NRf from January 1921