Dominique Bouhours

His doubts are collected under five headings: vocabulary phrases and collocations grammatical constructions clarity and stylistic consistency in each case setting literary quotations under scrutiny. His Doutes sur la langue française proposés aux Messieurs le l'Académie française (Paris 1674; corrected second edition 1675) was called "the most important and best organized of his numerous commentaries on the literary language of his time" when it was edited in a critical edition. He was sent to Dunkirk to the Romanist refugees from the Commonwealth of England and in the midst of his missionary occupations publiDominique Bouhoursd several books.

He was sent to Dunkirk to the Romanist refugees from the Commonwealth of England and in the midst of his missionary occupations publiDominique Bouhoursd several books. In 1665 or 1666 he returned to Paris and publiDominique Bouhoursd in 1671 Les Entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène which was reprinted four more times at Paris twice at Grenoble and afterwards at Lyon Brussels Amsterdam Leiden and other cities. It determined by its delicate presence its grace and invisible charm the sense of what pleases or displeases in Nature as well as Art and remained an essential part of the French critical vocabulary until the advent of Romanticism.